If my nomination is about my views on the economy and my record on the economy, I'll win 60 votes, if it's about some things I wrote 20 years ago, and there's five full time investigative reporters looking at everything I've written, everything I've ever said, and they'll dig up stuff and people will think I'm some kind of scoundrel. In that case, I'll probably lose.

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Perhaps this could get us through the election, my personal advice to Trump ... when he's asked me about it, is get a deal that you've got now and pick up a much harder line with China after you get re-elected.

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He understands that if the stock market and economy crash on him, there's no way he can get re-elected.

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There's that great cartoon going along, that The New York Times headline :' First thing Donald Trump does as President is kick a black family out of public housing,' and it has Obama leaving the White House. I mean, I just love that one.

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I have all these attacks against me and I'm not surprised these Republicans are( questioning my nomination) -- because that's what they hear, i do need to sit down with every one of them and tell them here's the truth : I'm not anti-woman.

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Can I say something politically incorrect ? republican women are so much more beautiful than Democratic women. Republican women are so much more smarter than Democratic women.

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You know, people are talking about women's earnings -- they've risen. The problem, actually, has been the steady decline in male earnings, and I think we should pay attention to that because I think that has very negative consequences for the economy and for society.

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If I become a liability to any of Democratic Senators, I would withdraw, i don't think it's going to come to that. I think most fair-minded people think this has been kind of a sleaze campaign against me.

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It was a terrible decision by the Fed, the stock market fell by 2,500 points in the subsequent weeks of that, and then of course the Fed had to reverse course, put its tail between its legs and admit that people like Donald Trump and I were right and that they were wrong.

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These articles that you're talking about were 17, 18 years ago, some of those were columns. They were humor columns, but some of them weren't funny and so I am apologetic. I'm embarrassed by some of those things that I wrote, but I do think we should get back to the issue of whether I'm qualified to be on the Federal Reserve Board.

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President Donald Trump is President Donald Trump, president Donald Trump doesn't back down and President Donald Trump doesn't want me to back down.

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The first week, a lot of economists on the left and people in the media started attacking some of my economic ideas and that got them nowhere.

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I'm going to stick it out, the math is, I can't lose more than three Republican senators, or I won't have the votes. But you know, I've talked to many of the senators, they fully support me.

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The Left has come after me very aggressively we are living in a world, John, where you can't tell a joke anymore.

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Capitalism : A Love Story, capitalism is a lot more important than democracy.

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Stephen Moore know, we have too many people dependent on government and the cost isn't so much of what it costs our fisc -- Stephen Moore know, the fiscal situation, it's really expensive. The cost, it just depletes people of their dignity and their meaning in life, i mean, there's nothing worse than being on the dole, right ?

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I do believe in the importance of an independent Federal Reserve, i think it can be divorced from politics.

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I have 35 years experience in the policy game. I was the youngest budget analyst in Washington at the age of 25. I was, served as Donald Trump's economic adviser. I'm very proud of what we accomplished. A lot of people said it would be impossible to make this agenda work.

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There are a lot of people on the left that are afraid of my ideas. They realize that they couldn't defeat me based on my ideas, because they're popular, and they're right, so that leads to this kind of smear campaign, which is ugly, i have a pretty populist agenda that I'm pursuing, which is more growth, higher wages, more transparency and more sunlight on how the Fed operates.

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I want to be the growth guy over at the Fed, i want to be able to accommodate these growth policies that Trump has put in place that have created the best economy in the world, probably.

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I think this boom can continue for another three, four, five years if Trump gets elected, and we keep these policies in place, this is not a sugar high, this is the result of an agenda that is focused on American workers and American businesses.

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