Alan Greenspan Quote

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.

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

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