Ben Bernanke Quotes

It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.

Ben Bernanke

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My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.

Olympia Snowe
- People
- Government
- Turn
Levi's can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.

Calvin Klein
- Better
- Price
- Jeans
Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away.

J. Maarten Troost
- People
- Believe
- Character
I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.

Forest Whitaker
- People
- Small
- Day
You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope.

Hal Holbrook
- People
- War
- Rich
You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

Ram Dass