Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.

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.

If I am unhappy, it has been of my own making, and that very thing shows that I can be happy if I will.

Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent.

Self-confident people Know that obstacles are only temporary setbacks.

If you never stop trying you'll never give up. If you never give up you'll never stop trying.

Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

If you work hard, it will pay off in the end.

These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.

The Congress of Vienna does not walk, but it dances.

I've always wanted to act and I grew up a little on film sets when my dad was working as an actor.

'Alms in secret extinguish the wrath of the Lord' means you are so immersed in sincerity and in preserving that sincerity that you have no pleasure in giving alms.