When you're facing the threat of recession, you need to have an expansionary monetary and fiscal policy. Pre-Keynesian, Hooverite views are dead everywhere except on 19th Street in Washington.

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.

To win, depend on your thoughts and actions but not on circumstances.

Men did not like women to weep. It reminded them of their own failings.

If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going.

Marriage is tough. I can tell my wife all day long that I love her, but it doesn't mean anything if you don't show that.

Feel your feelings. What you bring forth will save you.

I'm filthy stinking rich - well, two out of three ain't bad.

The reality is that I'm an actor from the Midwest and I was 40 movies into it before I started 'Entourage'.

You, of course, are a rose-- But were always a rose.

Like life isn't complicated enough. You should at least be able to follow the signs.

You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.