You can't overestimate what happens when you encourage regulators to believe that the goal of regulation is not to regulate.

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.

It seems to Henry, as he takes his seat in his usual middle pew, that women are far braver than men

I'm very comfortable in the U.S. and Europe, but I feel completely out of place in the rest of the world, mostly because I never spent time outside the U.S. and Europe until I was in my 30s.

I've never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.

I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd.

Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.

If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual practitioner

Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart - it's all a person has.

The Enemy is overcome by the blessed Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I do think that there is an almost more old fashioned mentality to the way musical theatre people and actresses especially are treated.

All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.