"Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously."

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Source : "Why Janet Yellen Should Be Fed Chair (In 4 Quotes)" By Mark Gongloff, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 16, 2013.

Janet Yellen

#Employment Quotes #Problem Quotes #Social Quotes

“The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV.”
“But itâ€™s there. Just because I havenâ€™t told anyone doesnâ€™t mean it isnâ€™t there, all the time, lurking in the back of my mind, like one those NSync songs you canâ€™t get out of your head.”
“The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them.”
“Certainly Nancy Reagan had an extraordinary effect on her husband. I'm truly not sure that, say, Laura Bush had that much effect on the Bush administration. She certainly, you know, seems to be a nice person who I think the public likes. But I can't really put my finger on any huge impact she's had.”
“When we start to believe stories about how life works that come from anywhere else but within, we have set ourselves up for a crash course in getting a spiritual wake-up call!”
“"I'm glad there's been so much laughter in the audience tonight." "But they're not laughing with you. They're laughing at you."”
“The trouble with ghostwriting is that it raises the issue of whether the president is in a state of diminished responsibility for what he says. Does he actually grasp the implications of the words he speaks?”
“The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.”

Source : "Fifty years on, the silence of Rachel Carson's spring consumes us" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2012.

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