The role of liquidity in systemic events provides yet another reason why, in the future, a more system wide or macroprudential approach to regulation is needed.
Ben Bernanke
Related Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS But we suspect there are many more staying in the local community who haven't needed us for one reas... CHRISTINE PARKER A great future starts with what you can see SOTONYE ANGA Our objective in regulation should be to put in place tough enough regulation and capital and liquid... JANET YELLEN If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS A “roadmap” is simply a plan for moving or transitioning, from one state to another. A roadmap p... PEARL ZHU It is a microcosm of events generally hitting the market, ... and it reinforces the notion that ther... ANTHONY CRESCENZI Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the ear... LEWIS THOMAS This is another outrageous example of why self-regulation does not work, EVAN HENDRICKS When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE This research underlines the fact that yet another antenatal cause of cerebral palsy has been identi... CATHERINE GIBSON There is no greater glory than to die for love. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds have played an important role in providing liq... JACK REED The approach we've taken in Nevada is that what we need is a system of regulation, not the Wild West... BRUCE MIRKEN Efforts to promote financial stability through adjustments in interest rates would increase the vola... JANET YELLEN To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... Another critical factor to note is that the only reason why people do not become anything they want ... SUNDAY ADELAJA He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY By the terms of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in June of last year legalizing the practice of dest... STEVEN A. COULTER I sought Ben Affleck because I needed an everyman for this role. Ben appeals to men and women. He gi... JOHN FRANKENHEIMER America's health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medica... PAUL GILLMOR This new research is a new piece of the puzzle in the complex system of bodyweight regulation. KATRINA KELNER We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG Cartooning is a wonderful career, and I'd like more women to get to have it. I can't think of any re... CATHY GUISEWITE The Final Four is becoming one of the premier events in the country from a corporate perspective. It... DAVID LORD Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON The reason why many of us cannot be successful in business or ministry is due to the fact that we re... SUNDAY ADELAJA Liquidity is oxygen for a financial system. RUTH PORAT What is UVSC's role in the Utah system of higher education in general and, more specifically, to the... DAVID KELLER How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. Part of the reason why I'm supporting Trump is that I think we need a more radical, new approach... WILBUR ROSS Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future. JEFFREY FRY We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity a... LAWRENCE LESSIG Beautify your breath – beautify your life. AMIT RAY No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live. ANDREA HAIRSTON It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo... J.D. SALINGER There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... LYDIA MILLET If you have read this far in the chronicle of the Baudelaire orphans - and I certainly hope you have... LEMONY SNICKET Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future... MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO I'm not a big believer in the power of more regulation to fix things. I think it can almost be m... BETHANY MCLEAN Until someone recognizes his or her Reason Why, the problem will recur, or another will sprout up in... BROWNELL LANDRUM There is no reason to punish the future children of Brevard Public Schools for the past actions of a... HAROLD BISTLINE When a guy goes out there and kills somebody, he might look at himself as the winner. But in truth h... DREXEL DEAL I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future. DAN QUAYLE In the course of events, there was a nexus to the city of Newport Beach, and that's the reason why w... DALE JOHNSON At the next General Election, voters face a clear choice: deregulation and less interference in ever... JOHN REDWOOD The past or past events and the future or future events, ONLY EXIST IN THE MIND. They are not real o... JACK TYME No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever." "Forever has no mea... ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'... W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti... WILLIAM FAULKNER I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al... J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey... ANUJ SOMANY I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live. THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now. JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination. RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft... ANUJ SOMANY When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f... GARY F EVANS... It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits. THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people. ANUJ SOMANY I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde... GARY F EVANS... Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost. PST ADELAJA SUNDAY The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe... THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress... SARAH JIO Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today. SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous. G.K. CHESTERTON You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the... JAN GLIDEWELL I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see. KARINA HALLE I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �... NEIL GAIMAN The system wears a mask of civility, yet will quickly reveal its true nature in the form of magnific... BRYANT MCGILL More importantly, the removal of regulatory uncertainty provides the much-needed catalyst to close t... DAVID BARNES These settlements are evidence of systemic, industry-wide problems that need to be addressed. CHUCK GRASSLEY To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew. SOTONYE ANGA I try and hold up the ball in the same kind of role as [them], though obviously not at the same stan... JOHN HARTSON Love’ is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” Ben ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr... BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath. AMIT RAY It is just too massive for any private insurer to handle. The government has to have a role there, a... LARRY COX Would it run in [the cold temperatures of] Western Canada and [the warm ones of] Brazil? We needed a... MAGGIE WALKER Cartooning is a wonderful career, and I'd like more women to get to have it. I can't think o... CATHY GUISEWITE Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. GEORGE A. MOORE Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feelin... DAVID BOHM Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik... TOBA BETA She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest. SARAH J. MAAS The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage... WALTHER BOTHE WIDE ANGLE brings a rare and needed focus to the events shaping our global neighborhood. Through thi... JACOBA ATLAS Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is... R.J. GONZALES
More Ben Bernanke
Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the ... BEN BERNANKE Among other objectives, liquidity guidelines must take into account the risks that inadequate liquid... BEN BERNANKE Monetary policy is a blunt tool which certainly affects the distribution of income and wealth, altho... BEN BERNANKE The decline in home equity makes it more difficult for struggling homeowners to refinance and reduce... BEN BERNANKE Banks need to continue to lend to creditworthy borrowers to earn a profit and remain strong. BEN BERNANKE Home purchases that are very highly leveraged or unaffordable subject the borrower and lender to a g... BEN BERNANKE Aggregate statistics can sometimes mask important information. BEN BERNANKE Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster ... BEN BERNANKE Textbooks describe economics as the study of the allocation of scarce resources. That definition may... BEN BERNANKE History has demonstrated time and again the inherent resilience and recuperative powers of the Ameri... BEN BERNANKE Many foreclosed homes are neglected or abandoned, as legal proceedings or other factors delay their ... BEN BERNANKE No economy can succeed without a high-quality workforce, particularly in an age of globalization and... BEN BERNANKE The ultimate purpose of economics, of course, is to understand and promote the enhancement of well-b... BEN BERNANKE The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial ... BEN BERNANKE Smart financial planning - such as budgeting, saving for emergencies, and preparing for retirement -... BEN BERNANKE I believe that the Federal Reserve's success in reducing and stabilizing inflation and inflation exp... BEN BERNANKE The greatest single cause of the fiscal surplus of the 1990s was the stock market bubble, which led ... BEN BERNANKE The most recent evidence ... suggests that the economic expansion remains on track. BEN BERNANKE the policies and policy strategies established during the Greenspan years. BEN BERNANKE Reconstruction is going to add jobs and growth to the economy, BEN BERNANKE These inflation effects should fade even if energy prices remain elevated, so long as monetary polic... BEN BERNANKE a forecast about the future evolution of policy, not an unconditional commitment. BEN BERNANKE There is enormous demand for dollar denominated assets so I don't expect that this demand would drop... BEN BERNANKE Under Chairman Greenspan, monetary policy has become increasingly transparent to the public and the ... BEN BERNANKE Under a cold turkey strategy, at each policy meeting the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) would ... BEN BERNANKE The amount of currency in circulation is not changing. The money supply is not changing in any signi... BEN BERNANKE It's true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many ci... BEN BERNANKE I and others were mistaken early on in saying that the subprime crisis would be contained. The causa... BEN BERNANKE Fostering transparency and accountability at the Federal Reserve was one of my principal objectives ... BEN BERNANKE The Depression was an incredibly dramatic episode - an era of stock-market crashes, breadlines, bank... BEN BERNANKE Remember that physical beauty is evolution's way of assuring us that the other person doesn'... BEN BERNANKE Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Feder... BEN BERNANKE When historical relationships are taken into account, it is difficult to ascribe the house price bub... BEN BERNANKE I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonst... BEN BERNANKE Deflation can be particularly dangerous when a financial system is shaky, with household and corpora... BEN BERNANKE Growth in U.S. real imports slowed to about 3 percent in 2006, in part reflecting a drop in real ter... BEN BERNANKE No one will lend at a negative interest rate; potential creditors will simply choose to hold cash, w... BEN BERNANKE Deflation is defined as a general decline in prices, with emphasis on the word 'general.' BEN BERNANKE Sector-specific price declines, uncomfortable as they may be for producers in that sector, are gener... BEN BERNANKE I have spoken about deficits, and I think deficits are important because they address broad economic... BEN BERNANKE At the most basic level, a central bank must be clear and open about its actions and operations, par... BEN BERNANKE The downturn following the collapse of Japan's so-called bubble economy of the 1980s was not as ... BEN BERNANKE Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets. BEN BERNANKE I think most of us would agree that people who have, say, little formal schooling but labor honestly... BEN BERNANKE In any given month, a large number of workers are being hired or are leaving their current jobs, ill... BEN BERNANKE The Federal Reserve can only buy Treasuries and agencies, and moreover quantitative easing typically... BEN BERNANKE If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study t... BEN BERNANKE As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education h... BEN BERNANKE In September 2008, the two largest housing mortgage companies called Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, whi... BEN BERNANKE The financial crisis that began in the summer of 2007 was an extraordinarily complex event with mult... BEN BERNANKE The crisis in Europe has affected the U.S. economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on b... BEN BERNANKE The failure of Lehman Brothers demonstrated that liquidity provision by the Federal Reserve would no... BEN BERNANKE Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was qu... BEN BERNANKE The Federal Reserve cannot solve all the economy's problems on its own. BEN BERNANKE As we try to make the financial system safer, we must inevitably confront the problem of moral hazar... BEN BERNANKE Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other... BEN BERNANKE Given the extent of the exposures of major banks around the world to A.I.G., and in light of the ext... BEN BERNANKE Of course, economic forecasts must be revised when new information arrives and are thus necessarily ... BEN BERNANKE A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy ... BEN BERNANKE I came home from school one day, and there was a phone call for me. And I picked up the phone. They ... BEN BERNANKE In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good de... BEN BERNANKE Since World War II, inflation - the apparently inexorable rise in the prices of goods and services -... BEN BERNANKE Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas ... BEN BERNANKE The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the gre... BEN BERNANKE The actions taken by central banks and other authorities to stabilize a panic in the short run can w... BEN BERNANKE Honest error in the face of complex and possibly intractable problems is a far more important source... BEN BERNANKE Identity theft is a serious crime that affects millions of Americans each year. BEN BERNANKE Uncertainty is seen to retard investment independently of considerations of risk or expected return. BEN BERNANKE A collapse in U.S. stock prices certainly would cause a lot of white knuckles on Wall Street. BEN BERNANKE The Mexican debt crisis, Latin American debt crisis, the crises of the 1990s, the Wall Street stock ... BEN BERNANKE Monetary policy is most effective when it is coherent, consistent and predictable as possible, while... BEN BERNANKE I think it's generally a bad idea for the Fed to be the arbiter of asset prices. The Fed doesn't rea... BEN BERNANKE Neighborhoods and communities are complex organisms that will be resilient only if they are healthy ... BEN BERNANKE One might as well try to perform brain surgery with a sledgehammer. BEN BERNANKE Community development has a long history of innovation and learning from experience. BEN BERNANKE Our understanding of the best practice in monetary policy evolved during Alan Greenspan's tenure at ... BEN BERNANKE Although I expect policy to follow the usual gradualist pattern, the pace of tightening will of nece... BEN BERNANKE I think policy is currently quite accommodative. I think it can remain quite accommodative for a whi... BEN BERNANKE Even if the economy recovers smartly for the rest of this year and the next, the ongoing slack in th... BEN BERNANKE It's been a resilient economy, it's responded well and job creation has proceeded apace. BEN BERNANKE As you know, in the latter part of 2008 and early 2009, the Federal Reserve took extraordinary steps... BEN BERNANKE To be sure, the provision of liquidity alone can by no means solve the problems of credit risk and c... BEN BERNANKE Preventing liquidation of an unbalanced market will leave you in tears. BEN BERNANKE The Libor system is structurally flawed. It is a major problem for our financial system and for the ... BEN BERNANKE I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed. BEN BERNANKE Monetary policy has less room to maneuver when interest rates are close to zero, while expansionary ... BEN BERNANKE The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around toda... BEN BERNANKE After the 1929 crash, the Federal Reserve mistakenly focused its policies on preserving the gold val... BEN BERNANKE The Federal Reserve's job is to do the right thing, to take the long-run interest of the economy... BEN BERNANKE Monetary policy cannot do much about long-run growth, all we can try to do is to try to smooth out p... BEN BERNANKE The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing ... BEN BERNANKE The best solution to income inequality is providing a high-quality education for everybody. In our h... BEN BERNANKE The biggest downside of my current job is that I have to wear a suit to work. Wearing uncomfortable ... BEN BERNANKE The movement toward a holistic approach to community development has been long in the making, but th... BEN BERNANKE The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent)... BEN BERNANKE It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher c... BEN BERNANKE This step would in no way reduce the importance of maximum employment as a policy goal, ... In any c... BEN BERNANKE In all likelihood, a significant amount of time will be required to restore the nearly eight and a h... BEN BERNANKE When the economic well-being of their nation demanded a strong and creative response, my colleagues ... BEN BERNANKE In fact, the world needs more nerds. BEN BERNANKE There is a deficit; I'd like to see it lowered. But it's up to Congress to decide whether that shoul... BEN BERNANKE I think at this point in time that the inverted yield curve is not signaling a slowdown. BEN BERNANKE When prices are stable, people can hold money for transactions and other purposes without having to ... BEN BERNANKE The public has shown confidence that any increases in inflation will be temporary and that, in the l... BEN BERNANKE Some influential voices of the time argued that by accepting higher inflation, policy-makers could b... BEN BERNANKE In any case, the Federal Reserve will continue to monitor this sector closely. BEN BERNANKE According to government ethics rules ... it is permissible for a retired (Fed) governor to speak in ... BEN BERNANKE In these circumstances, the FOMC judged that some further firming of monetary policy may be necessar... BEN BERNANKE Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Feder... BEN BERNANKE I don't think that Chinese ownership of U.S. assets is so large as to put our country at risk econom... BEN BERNANKE I think policy is currently quite accommodative. I think it can remain quite accommodative for a whi... BEN BERNANKE I am confident that we will meet whatever challenges the future may bring. BEN BERNANKE Our mission as set forth by the Congress is a critical one. BEN BERNANKE The economy is much more energy efficient today than it was in the 1970s when energy shocks contribu... BEN BERNANKE If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will... BEN BERNANKE I will maintain the focus on long-term price stability as monetary policy's greatest contribution to... BEN BERNANKE I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political inf... BEN BERNANKE Monetary policy is not a panacea. BEN BERNANKE At this point, a leveling out or a modest softening of housing activity seems more likely than a sha... BEN BERNANKE These are issues that we are going to have to address, because they are significant. BEN BERNANKE There are various estimates about the third quarter impact, ... Our CEA (Council of Economic Adviser... BEN BERNANKE There appears to be some possibility that the recent trend toward disinflation will continue, primar... BEN BERNANKE Quantitatively, outsourcing abroad simply cannot account for much of the recent weakness in the U.S.... BEN BERNANKE This step would in no way reduce the importance of maximum employment as a policy goal. In any case,... BEN BERNANKE If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will... BEN BERNANKE Economic management involves the operation of economic frameworks in real time - for example, in the... BEN BERNANKE The bottom line for policy appears ambiguous. BEN BERNANKE In the future, financial firms of any type whose failure would pose a systemic risk must accept espe... BEN BERNANKE Stronger regulation and supervision aimed at problems with underwriting practices and lenders' r... BEN BERNANKE History proves... that a smart central bank can protect the economy and the financial sector from th... BEN BERNANKE If two people always agree, one of them is redundant. BEN BERNANKE It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent. BEN BERNANKE There are various estimates about the third quarter impact. Our CEA (Council of Economic Advisers) n... BEN BERNANKE China is growing very quickly and is clearly becoming an important player in the world economy. BEN BERNANKE In the tradition of national income accounting, economic policymakers have typically focused on vari... BEN BERNANKE Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society... BEN BERNANKE If Australia finds it has a strong Australian dollar, and it has higher unemployment, then it would ... BEN BERNANKE Consumers going through foreclosure typically will see their credit scores drop, raising longer-term... BEN BERNANKE The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns. BEN BERNANKE Certainly, 9 percent unemployment and very slow growth is not a good situation. BEN BERNANKE Only a strong economy can create higher asset values and sustainably good returns for savers. BEN BERNANKE Under Chairman Greenspan, monetary policy has become increasingly transparent to the public and the ... BEN S. BERNANKE If I am confirmed to this position, my first priority will be to maintain consistency and continuity... BEN S. BERNANKE I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political inf... BEN S. BERNANKE The destruction wrought by Katrina and Rita may reduce growth somewhat in the short run, but the lon... BEN S. BERNANKE The greatest single cause of the fiscal surplus of the 1990s was the stock market bubble, which led ... BEN S. BERNANKE I see inflation as remaining well-contained going forward. BEN S. BERNANKE There is enormous demand for dollar denominated assets so I don't expect that this demand would drop... BEN S. BERNANKE Middle-income living standards, and poverty for that matter, are best addressed through employment g... BEN S. BERNANKE Those high oil prices are a burden on U.S. families, on firms' production costs. But the good news i... BEN S. BERNANKE My first priority will be to maintain continuing with the policy and policy strategies under the Gre... BEN S. BERNANKE Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names... BEN CARSON If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll ge... BEN VEREEN You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going ... BEN CARSON I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at tha... BEN MENDELSOHN I basically sat around unemployed in Sydney for three years straight, and the two things that saved ... BEN MENDELSOHN The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put f... BEN MENDELSOHN My favorite-ever version of 'King Lear' is the 1971 film by Peter Brooks. He has this enormo... BEN MENDELSOHN I think some of my favorite Australian films were shot by people that are not Australian. And I thin... BEN MENDELSOHN Fassbender is fearless; he's a fearless actor. BEN MENDELSOHN Typically, I'll wake up at 4:30 in the morning. It's just the continual jet lag residue, jus... BEN MENDELSOHN I had a pretty good career at home. What keeps you going is not having a plan B. It's a very goo... BEN MENDELSOHN 'Star Wars' is populated by so many great types; who wouldn't want to be a Han Solo kind... BEN MENDELSOHN The thing about home is that it's a tough place to sustain a career, just by dent of the size of... BEN MENDELSOHN I never felt like someone who was boyish and coming to terms with asking girls out or anything like ... BEN MENDELSOHN I remember 'The Yearling' was the first film I ever saw, and my mom told me I cried for abou... BEN MENDELSOHN The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their f... BEN MENDELSOHN Before 'Animal Kingdom,' I wasn't particularly thought of in villainous roles. BEN MENDELSOHN I like to call up ghosts of things past for myself when I'm working a lot. BEN MENDELSOHN 'Animal Kingdom' is a significant comet, and it's cast a tail. It's very hard to see... BEN MENDELSOHN 'Animal Kingdom' is a lot of things, but it's not heartwarming. BEN MENDELSOHN The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents' houses at a young age, live... BEN MENDELSOHN Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got. BEN MENDELSOHN I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a sl... BEN MENDELSOHN You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it ind... BEN MENDELSOHN You think of 'Outlaw Josey Wales,' you immediately think of the old Indian guy, Sondra Locke... BEN MENDELSOHN As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there. BEN MENDELSOHN It's good to surf whatever waves are going on right there as they're happening. BEN MENDELSOHN I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you... BEN MENDELSOHN We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was st... BEN OKRI It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression. BEN SHAPIRO Each new day has a different shape to it. You just roll with it. BEN ZOBRIST People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they as... BEN MEZRICH Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transpare... BEN GOLDACRE Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the ... BEN HUH One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback. BEN SILBERMANN The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from ... BEN OKRI No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I fee... BEN CARSON Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. An... BEN CARSON I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can b... BEN SCHNETZER Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism. BEN SHAPIRO The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where the... BEN OKRI I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like preci... BEN WHISHAW Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building endurin... BEN PARR Most of these people are not going anywhere, and have nothing meaningful to do. They are zombies see... BEN HINSON I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar. BEN KATCHOR I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics... BEN ELLIOT Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while. BEN MARCUS Obama wants to raise the issue of immigration reform so that he can demonize Republicans as anti-His... BEN SHAPIRO President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and ... BEN SHAPIRO