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

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.

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.

The man who has a goal is not stopped when facing obstacles rather he overcomes them, thus, improving himself

Had he not resembled My father as he slept I had done't!" Macbeth

Sam said, Hey, you want to get high? Amy had taken his words to mean You are so beautiful I am undone by you.

Once I'm satisfied and I've made enough money where I can afford to live in Malibu, because it's very expensive, I will definitely be back there.

I was a compulsive eater in my late teens and until I wrote Diet for a Small Planet, so I know what it feels like when food becomes a threat.

You subscribe politics to it. I subscribe freedom to it.

I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy.

She was saying goodbye and she didn't even know it.

Before researchers become researches they should become philosophers.