Health care is very different from other sectors of the economy in several respects, one of which is the fact that the risk can be very high beyond people's ability. That leads to insurance.

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.

My art teacher told me I'd be suited to graphic design, but I just couldn't, because it was what my dad had done.

...became a woman who learned her own skin and dug into her soul and found it full.

By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?

To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul.

It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this "failing asleep", the subconscious itself does not undergo a decline in being.

The Great Convergence: Asia, the West and the Logic of One World.

To measure is to know.

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.

The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.

All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.