Mark Olson Quotations

Since we opened our store in 1959, our goal has been to serve Cambridge-area residents in the best way we could. Our partnership with Cub allows us to continue to fulfill that goal by providing even greater selection and value to our customers.

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.

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,

I got 650. That'd be considered small, I guess.

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

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.

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

We are only now starting to hear indications of increased pricing power, but they're still anecdotal and we don't see it across the board.

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

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.

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,

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

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,

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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 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 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.

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 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.