There's no other job in public life that is like chairman of the Fed.
Alan GreenspanRead
I've always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the positive impact of immigration and diversity on a nation.
Alan Greenspan's statement highlights the critical role that immigration plays in enhancing a country's strength by bringing in diverse perspectives, talents, and innovations. He suggests that the amalgamation of different cultures and ideas enriches the society and contributes significantly to its overall prosperity and success.
In practice
This quote can be used in discussions about immigration policy to advocate for a more inclusive approach.
There's no other job in public life that is like chairman of the Fed.
Since 1948 I have spent every single day thinking how the economic and political worlds have changed.
Most high-income people in our country do not realize that their incomes are being subsidized by their protection from competition from highly skilled people who are prevented from immigrating to the United States. But we need such skills in order to staff our productive economy, so that the standard of living for Americans as a whole can grow.
I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.
Every economy exists, no matter what the level of democracy, has elements of crony capitalism. It's - given human nature and given the democratic structures, which we all, I assume, adhere to, that is an inevitable consequence.
I do not understand where the backing of Bitcoin is coming from. There is no fundamental issue of capabilities of repaying it in anything which is universally acceptable, which is either intrinsic value of the currency or the credit or trust of the individual who is issuing the money, whether it's a government or an individual.
The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.
The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault.
The failure of the Reformation to capture France had left for Frenchmen no half-way house between infallibility and infidelity; and while the intellect of Germany and England moved leisurely in the lines of religious evolution, the mind of France leaped from the hot faith which had massacred the Huguenots to the cold hostility with which La Mettrie, Helvetius, Holbach, and Diderot turned upon the religion of the fathers.
The Tao which you know is not the eternal Tao
Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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