After my first visit to Japan, in 1960, to work on a joint model building project at Osaka University, I maintained a continuing interest in the country and the entire Far East.

I, Lawrence Klein, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, as were my elder brother and younger sister.

During the early 1960s, I decided to supplement research support for quantitative economic studies at Pennsylvania by selling econometric forecasts to private and public sector buyers.

The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics.

Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career.

An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with economic issues.

It came as a surprise to find that a professional society and journal (Econometrica) were flourishing, and I entered this area of study with great enthusiasm.

The SSRC committee turned attention from team research for building a model of the United States to doing one for world trade in order to investigate the international transmission mechanism.

Between world and animal are fewer questions than between man and world. How many such questions are there in God's Word?

If per capita was a problem, decapita could be arranged

You must learn to end the wars in your world by ending them in your minds.

Almighty Saviour, thank you for the gift of the moment.

Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.

Reo Malone - "You can't put the genie back in the bottle.

A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.

The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.

It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.

I'm absolutely convinced of that. Israel is the representative of the United States in that part of the world. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language.