Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.

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.

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

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.

This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

Much to the confusion of small-minded people, confidence does not equate arrogance.

Take charge of your life! The tides do not command the ship. The sailor does.

I've been screwed by as many women as I have by men, in terms of lawyers. But lawyers don't count. If you take lawyers out of the equation, you have a more fair playing field. There is a sisterhood.

If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.

The thing that is incredible is life itself.

Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.

A hit show takes Hollywood magic indeed, but it also takes a lot of math and science, plus the study of polls and trends to make and sell a TV show.

Never a daisy that grows, but a mystery guideth the growing; Never a river that flows, but a majesty scepters the flowing.

Will I, succeed, paranoid from the weed and hocus pocus, try to focus but I can't see.