"If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries."
— Alan Greenspan

January 1, 1970

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Speech to the Commercial Finance Association on October 26, 2006, as reported by the Associated Press ("Finally, Greenspan can speak his mind").