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.

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.

In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.

Most poor people earn more than minimum wage when they are working; their problem is not low wages. The problem comes when they are not working.

But should you ever come to a time when you need to say something upon my behalf, say this, 'The last truth is that there is no magic.

Suatu mahakarya butuh pengendapan pikiran dan investasi kesabaran.

Rather than pound or a national mind that he believed had been closed by his critics, John Quincy Adams decided to seek a place in the is the esteem of future generations.

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

In my opinion the Open variation is absolutely correct - and more interesting than the Closed.

Is it not true that for every person the course of life is along the line of least resistance, and that in this the movement of humanity is like the movement of material bodies?

To consider mankind other than brethren...plainly supposes a darkness of understanding.

Your early successes can be your undoing later.

I would never rest until I held vengeance and the throne within my hand, and good night sweet prince to anybody who stood between me and these things.

When people have expectations, you're going to make a lot of them upset - when in fact I'm not trying to represent anybody but myself.