I'm happy to say I am a Harrison-Kreps-Keynesian.

There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models, which of course they were not.

The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.

I wasn't the brightest kid, not by a long shot. I was interested in football, in girls, in getting my work done with the least amount of effort.

What I really don't like is oversimplification.

When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists.

I think you've got to watch out for anybody in high school who says he wants to become an economist.

Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times.

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

I knew it was going to hurt. No one sends such a long text, using so many words just to say "I love you.

There was never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male except his superior muscle.

If I do enough different things in enough different ways, I may, eventually, do something right.

Imagine trying to relive your worst break-up, your worst fight, the most painful death of a loved one, and just really relive it step by step, and bring it up and apply it to the scene you're in.

It was the East that should have sent us missionaries.

I attribute all of my success to my Catholic faith. My faith has given me the ability to be a good father, a good husband and most importantly a good person.

I'm so used to changing time zones that I can sleep at any time. I'm rarely ever tossing and turning - if I am, it's really a big deal.

We've got to start thinking of school as a lifelong process. That's the only way we'll keep abreast and be able to share in the wealth of the new "knowledge society."

'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.