“Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.”

Loose money and light regulation were a toxic mixture. It exploded.

It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.

International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn’t go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.

What you measure affects what you do. If you don’t measure the right thing, you don’t do the right thing.

Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.

When you don’t have equality of opportunity because you don’t have equal access to education, it just seems so outrageous. It weakens our economy and leads to more inequality.

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

American inequality didn’t just happen. It was created.

GDP tells you nothing about sustainability.

When I said “the pocket of the banks,” it is not necessarily a mercenary relationship. It is a mindset.

Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.

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.

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.

You laugh, but you haven’t seen me in a tux. Or maybe you don’t like broad-shouldered guys with muscular chest and washboard abs?

While Asia is commonly referred to as the Gateway to Europe, it is no less true that Europe is the Gateway to Asia, and the broad influence of the one cannot fail to have its impact upon the other.

In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.

And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it’s fast and broad.

Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.