For instance, one of the costs of the war is that soldiers today get very seriously injured but stay alive, and we can keep them alive but at an enormous price.

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.

The best way to be original is to not copy anyone.

Nothing is hard or simple

The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

If you hate me, you only harm yourself. You better love me.

Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.

If you would be wealthy think of saving as well as of getting.

Poverty hides itself in thought before it surrenders to purses.

Digital television, satellite radio, videogames, iPods - so much media. Do books even matter anymore?

What would be the fun in doing things you know are going to work?