Ben Bernanke Quotes

Textbooks describe economics as the study of the allocation of scarce resources. That definition may be the 'what,' but it certainly is not the 'why.'

Ben Bernanke

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My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.

Maggie Stiefvater
- Long
- Live
- Money
The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.

C. Everett Koop
- People
- Up
- Find
There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.

Sam Yagan
- People
- Together
- Parents
Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.

Zooey Deschanel
- Fun
- Think
- Want
My nephew has type 1 diabetes, and it's my goal and hope that in his lifetime there will be a cure for diabetes. There's no place better to give the money to than the Juvenile Diabetes Association.

Abby Wambach
- Money
- Hope
- Goal
There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves.

Jack Straw
- Children
- Family
- Arguing