If the President asked you to help, I don't think anybody could refuse, unless one felt that one couldn't be effective.

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.

And I choose to be aloneRather than wrapped in arms I could never need.

Pounding that kid, I really wanted to put a bullet between the eyes of every endangered panda that wouldn't screw to save its species and every whale or dolphin that gave up and ran itself aground.

Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.

Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

Have a short story feature two situations, and then let them solve each other.

Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.

It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

No more slave States; no slave Territories.