Jeffrey D. Sachs Quotes

History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.

We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.

reason why prosperity spread, and why it continues to spread, is the transmission of technologies and the ideas underlying them.

The rich control our politics to a huge extend. In return they get tax cuts and deregulation. It's been and is an amazing ride for the rich.

Markets cannot meet the needs of the very poor. The desperately poor are not consumers who will create an immediate profit.

The energy and daring is to resist the noes, until the final yes has been achieved.

They did not understand that by liberalizing imports, the government was also promoting exports.

world is not a zero-sum struggle in which one country's gain is another's loss.

sweatshops are the first rung on the ladder out of extreme poverty

Knowing that an economy is in decline is not enough. We must know why the economy is failing to achieve economic growth if we are to take steps to establish or reestablish it.