“The only surprise about the economic crisis of 2008 was that it came as a surprise to so many.”

Climate change is a reality.

We won’t have an economic recovery until Covid-19 is under control.

It’s easy to get rich by getting a state asset at a deep discount.

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

Inequality is a choice. It is not inevitable.

Letting bygones be bygones is a basic principle in economics.

Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market.

If the President asked you to help, I don’t think anybody could refuse, unless one felt that one couldn’t be effective.

Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

The U.S. basically wrote the rules and created the institutions of globalisation.

Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.

The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.

Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.

But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics.

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

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

If you want others to like you, if you want to develop real friendships, if you want to help others at the same time as you help yourself, keep this principle in mind: Become genuinely interested in other people.

How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?

Humility is not a character trait to develop, it’s the natural by-product of being with Jesus.

Mathematics is entirely free in its development, and its concepts are only linked by the necessity of being consistent, and are co-ordinated with concepts introduced previously by means of precise definitions.

One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others.

We are what we think we are. The habitual inclination of our thoughts determines our talents and abilities, and our personality. So whatever you want to be, start to develop that pattern now.

The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.

In our development, as we grow throughout our lives, the structure of our beliefs becomes very complicated, and we make it even more complicated because we make the assumption that what we believe is the absolute truth.