“Whenever I interview someone for a job, I always ask them whether they...” — Austan Goolsbee Quote

Whenever I interview someone for a job, I always ask them whether they want to sit in Bernanke's chair. The only wrong answer is, 'Who's Bernanke?'.

You can't look back at the worst financial crisis of our lifetimes that started in 2008 and not have some important lessons about the critical nature of oversights in financial markets and institutions.

If Democrats don't go on Fox News, it doesn't mean that people stop watching.

When Texans suffered from the collapse of the oil market in the 1980s, they could rely on the fiscal union to help them. When Texas boomed with rising oil prices in the 2000s, it contributed to the union to help harder hit regions.

Power is not just about the chair. The public is power.

Every time I do a play, I'm like, 'When do I get to do the one where I wear a gown, sit in a chair, and say funny things?' I'd love to do that.

Ella Fitzgerald was wonderful, absolutely wonderful. I was in and out of her dressing room. There was always a lot of food, because she had relatives that would always bring you something... And I worked with her during the summer, so I would go outside and play hopscotch, and she'd bring her chair and sit out there to watch me.

People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.

I can tell you that from the director's chair, young actors love to be challenged, to be given killer lines that take time to wrap their mind around.