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

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

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.

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.

Those who trust us educate us.

The joy of intimacy is the reward of commitment.

There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn't.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

I'm the kind of person who always wants more.

The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.

All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.

I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song.

I am the slave of those who hunger and thirst after me and treat everything else as unimportant.

I always thought my genitals were the result of some crude practical joke.