The rich have markets, the poor have bureaucrats.

Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do that.

We need a revolution in development thinking and practice. Foreign aid, debt relief, family planning, democracy, education, and free markets have not succeeded.

When you are in a hole, the top priority is to stop digging.

To escape the cycle of tragedy, we (searchers) have to be tough on the ideas of the planners, even while we salute their goodwill.

Economists did something even better than predict the crisis. We correctly predicted that we would not be able to predict it.

If there is one number to which the rights of millions will be happily sacrificed, it is the national GDP growth rate.

Any factor that breeds polarization will worsen policy, and thus cause lower growth.

... money should not be spent according to what the West considers the most dramatic kind of suffering.

Be conscious of the global elements in your dreams. When starting local, dream of taking it global sooner.

The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.

Life could begin all over again if you were lucky enough, and I had decided to be lucky.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.

Serving in the United States Senate has been the greatest privilege of my life.

When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed

He's one of the best power forwards of all-time. I take my hands off to him.