If you destroy a firm, you can't pull it out of bankruptcy overnight.

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.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

At the same time that 'I' am the content of a relation, 'I' am also that which does the relating.

I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.

Mars missions will require up to three years in reduced gravity, so we need to make sure astronauts can not only survive but thrive as they move outward to explore this new world.

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

If you give a cracker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is carve his initials in it. Fortunately, most crackers get over that once they're through puberty.

Money isn't the most important thing. It is important, of course. I am not Mahatma Gandhi.

I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.

My obsessions used to be my protectors, but now they have taken me prisoner.

There was something in the bel canto, not just opera, but a certain style of Italian singing that I responded to deeply.