The important thing is that they're all excused absences, ... Absences are, for all of us, due to any number of factors, be it city business or vacations.

The enhanced security features in this series of notes help ensure that U.S. currency will continue to represent the trust, value and confidence that people all over the world have grown to rely on and expect.

The farms are getting so huge. You know, they can farm so much. The guy that's got the land, he tries to get some more.

It's sad to say, but our rural communities are close to being extinct. Because when people like us retire in 10, 15 years, with farm sizes the way they are, there's going to be nobody left.

It's the continuing lack of addressing the fundamental fiscal policy issues now that the economy has returned to a more-normal condition that we need to address,

It's expensive. If you're selling $2 corn, you can't make it.

This is the most secure note the U.S. government has ever produced.

This $50 note is beautifully designed and includes important anti-counterfeiting features, ... is a job that's never finished.

This is an extremely modest step, but it is a step.

As our September FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) meeting followed Hurricane Katrina by approximately three weeks and was held concurrently with the formation of Hurricane Rita, I felt that there was insufficient information as well as great uncertainty about how these forces would play out in the near term,