American inequality didn't just happen. It was created.

International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.

There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economists.

What you measure affects what you do. If you don't measure the right thing, you don't do the right thing.

The problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion.

Trickle-down economics is a myth. Enriching corporations - as the TPP would - will not necessarily help those in the middle, let alone those at the bottom.

The striking thing about America is - it's historically, extraordinary unusual, I don't of any other instance - is that productivity of workers and wages have not moved in tandem.

In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.

Most poor people earn more than minimum wage when they are working; their problem is not low wages. The problem comes when they are not working.

At the core of the universe, the face of God wears a smile

Love is as hard to hide as hate.

You may be surprised what we use our dreams to do, how we drape them over our sight and carry them like amulets to protect us from evil spells.

Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.

The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.

Tim Tebow is a great guy, but he wasn't a good teammate.

The Monmouth-Ocean area is . . . always in the best-areas-to-live lists.

I've never seen anybody that lied as much as Ted Cruz. And he goes around saying he's a Christian.

Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.