Alan Greenspan Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“We're a democratic society. Shutting down the government should not be on the agenda.”

“History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.”

“It's hard to tell which assets will be toxic. The best way to ensure that only shareholders and banks feel it is have adequate capital.”

“Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.”

“I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.”

“I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.”

“Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot live together.”

“You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.”

“I've been around long enough to know that a good deal of the praise heaped on me I had nothing to do with. The only thing I did object to was the fact that where the criticism was actually wrong. Did it bother me? Of course it bothered me. But I've been around long enough to have ups and downs. So you get over it.”

“The person I liked the best was Gerald R. Ford. He was the most decent man in politics I ever had any relationships with.”