The only surprise about the economic crisis of 2008 was that it came as a surprise to so many.

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.

Seek the truth.

You might be able to kiss like a rock star, but you’ve got to get over this macho trip. You don’t own me.

If I was American, I think I'd live in New York, because I like that East Coast mentality. There's nothing wrong with Hollywood. If you want to be a big time filmmaker, you should go to Hollywood.

Europe as a whole is increasingly jesttisoning the old path of the Christian fathers.

This [2016] is not simply another four-year election. This is a crossroads in the history of our civilization that will determine whether or not we the people reclaim control over our government.

Once Liverpool had asked me to sign again, there was no hesitation.

Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.

No one has ever understood anything better by assuming that there is no reason for why it is the way it is.

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

I'm an actor. I can do whatever I want. As an actor, not everything has to be the most obvious choice. And sometimes, the best thing you can do is to defy expectations.