In college wrestling, you see a lot of talented athletes come in and fail because Division I class wrestling is the pinnacle of wrestling in America.

I don't think I could ever make 155. I made 163 for the Olympics, and that is a super low weight for me. I'm a fairly big person, and for me to make 163 was incredibly difficult.

I think I'm the best in the world at 170 pounds, so why would I need to go down? If, at some point, I beat everyone at 170, I'd consider going up. If I've eliminated all my challenges, yeah, at that point I would consider going up.

I just like taunting people.

If my team and family are happy for me, I'm not going to let what some fans think affect me in any way.

I think a lot of fans don't know MMA that well. They don't understand the subtleties.

If you can't play the good guy, sometimes you've got to play the villain.

One of my favorite topics to read about my whole life has just been famous athletes, and a lot of those have been combat athletes.

Some people who come from high levels in other backgrounds where they're used to being the best or used to being on a kind of pedestal, it's hard to kind of lower yourself again and just be one of the grunts. I kind of enjoyed that challenge in MMA.

I'm dominant positionally, and my hands got power.

My main motivation is to prove I'm No. 1 in the world.

Colby Covington is an idiot. He is so stupid.

Colby Covington has a very low IQ. He says a lot of stupid things, and it's almost embarrassing that he represents our country that way.

I think Georges St-Pierre should go down to fight Tyron Woodley. I think he has a chance.

I wouldn't fight Tyron Woodley; we go way, way back.

Nate Diaz sucks.

Dana White's a scumbag. I don't take anything he says with any value.

Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment and moderate long-term interest rates.

Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other government programs, especially those that are wasteful, duplicative and ineffective.

I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.

If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain the focus on long-term price stability as monetary policy's greatest contribution to general economic prosperity and maximum employment.

Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and employment, and to promote a stable and efficient financial system that serves all Americans well and fairly.

I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.

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

How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?

It's true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many circles.

The Federal Reserve's job is to do the right thing, to take the long-run interest of the economy to heart, and that sometimes means being unpopular. But we have to do the right thing.

I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate.

If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.

I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions, such as whether to serve bagels or doughnuts at the department coffee hour.

The Federal Reserve can only buy Treasuries and agencies, and moreover quantitative easing typically involves buying longer-term Treasuries and agencies in terms of bills, for example.

Monetary policy cannot do much about long-run growth, all we can try to do is to try to smooth out periods where the economy is depressed because of lack of demand.

A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.

The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.

The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.

Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.

In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels.

The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare.

The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.

I've never been on Wall Street. And I care about Wall Street for one reason and one reason only because what happens on Wall Street matters to Main Street.

The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have great universities. We have entrepreneurs.

The amount of currency in circulation is not changing. The money supply is not changing in any significant way.

It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.

The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing loopholes and lowering rates, you could increase the efficiency of the tax code and create more incentives for people to invest.

The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.

It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.

I am very proud of my nerd-dom.

In fact, the world needs more nerds.

Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933.

Well, the U.S., of course, is the world's largest economy. It's about a quarter of the world's output. It's also home to many of the largest financial institutions and financial markets.