The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy.

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.

Kindness has no boundaries. It is the language of the soul.

Love is a fearless force.

The passing clouds outside the window form the perfect backdrop for wavering frames I see moving inside my mind.

It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next.It made me tired just to think of it.

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.

I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.

When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.

The best way to show respect to your fellow athletes is to give the best performance you can.

I think that a lot of the money - these big bills - is used to facilitate tax evasion and crime.

The truths of Upanishadas are before you. Take them up, live up to them, and the salvation of Bharat will be at hand.