The important lesson of the deficit is - and the national debt - is we have to be careful about how we're spending money.

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.

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.

There is no bad weather, just soft runners.

Trying to prioritize among things we're unlikely to do is pretty fruitless.

I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something.

I made a decision back in 1978 that, in a trade off for money when I directed Halloween, I would have my name above the title in order to basically brand these movies my own.

I want people to react to my work, to think, to question, to challenge, to cry and laugh and feel.

The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity

We know that this mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution. (On Muammar Qaddafi of Libya)

This is the fantasy of every woman - to hold at our feet servile and tame slaves, like in Roman times. And the worse we treat them, the more passionate they become.

I prayed, thanking God, for making it all possible for me, because I knew where I came from.