Mark Olson Quotes (19 Quotes)

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.

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.

If anything was to happen to a patient taken to the forensic unit because there was nowhere else available in the system it would raise a major duty of care issue for the hospital and the State Government.

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,

We are watching very carefully the potential impact of inflation, and especially any price increases that would pass through to core inflation.

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,

Big Love. It's really an odd way to look at marriage.

underlying gains in employment and income were well maintained outside the Gulf region.

Yeah, and the younger guys have a hard time getting going.

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.

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

We would not try to use monetary policy to fix or to determine the shape of the yield curve. That would not be appropriate, nor could that be conducted I think,

As a result, I voted to pause in the removal of policy accommodation until more was known.

Real-time, on-the-ground anecdotes get to us faster than does the information that rolls up through the reporting process. Those anecdotes are enormously useful and we pay a lot of attention to them.

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.

For most of the time that I have been on the board, there has been very limited pass-through of the additional costs. And the absence of that pass-through has helped keep inflation down,

We don't believe that parents have rights over their children as if they were objects. What's important is that the child's relationships be sustained and maintained, so long as those relationships are in the best interests of the child.

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

These (energy) price increases will put upward pressure on the cost of the producers of other items, thereby posing the risk of some impetus to core inflation,