Massive debts owed to foreign creditors weaken our global influence and threaten high inflation and steep tax increases for our children and grandchildren.

- Evan Bayh

I might say that when the settlement was made the Nixon administration issued what they called a second inflation alert in which the General Motors settlement was branded as being inflationary and bad for the country.

- Leonard Woodcock

We have to keep our eye on inflation, but so far inflation remains reasonably in check on the global stage.

- John W. Snow

Businesses that have gone through an episode of hyperinflation become understandably alert to the threat of it: at the first hint of inflation, they're likely to increase prices, since they've learned that if they don't, and inflation hits, their businesses will be wrecked.

- James Surowiecki

The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.

- Jack Kemp

Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.

- Gavyn Davies

Right now the long-term investors are telling us that they're not as concerned about inflation and so we're seeing these rates now move into the marketplace and out to the street - rates that individuals can get.

- Franklin Raines

They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations of inflation. So if the average investor believes that there is inflation coming, they'll move that rate up.

- Franklin Raines

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

- Friedrich August von Hayek

If I were in charge of the government, I would index the minimum wage to inflation, so that way, everybody knows what they can count on.

- Fred DeLuca

The central focus of what we are doing at the Fed is to keep inflation from accelerating - and preferably decelerating.

- Alan Greenspan

Production is the only answer to inflation.

- Chester Bowles

Since World War II, inflation - the apparently inexorable rise in the prices of goods and services - has been the bane of central bankers.

- Ben Bernanke

To be sure, faster growth in nominal labor compensation does not necessarily portend higher inflation.

- Ben Bernanke

Low and stable inflation in many countries is an important accomplishment that will continue to bring significant benefits.

- Ben Bernanke

We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.

- Barbara Jordan

When you are growing at a rapid rate, there is bound to be some inflation. I think a 5% rate of inflation is something that we should take in our stride.

- Adi Godrej

You can't have a regime which continuously subsidizes things; as inflation rises, you keep prices of certain things unchanged.

- Adi Godrej

I feel very uncomfortable with respect to looking at inflation.

- Arthur Laffer

With the shrinking of the US economy, and it's shrinking very rapidly, you not only have more money, but you also have fewer goods. That's a classic double-whammy on inflation.

- Arthur Laffer