Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want. – Jeffrey Sachs
We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the worlds greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different. – Jeffrey Sachs
Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else. – Jeffrey Sachs
Weve taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of prosperity around the world, and that it would enhance our own prosperity, and our own stability and security, as well. – Jeffrey Sachs
After all, facts are facts, and although we may quote one to another with a chuckle the words of the Wise Statesman, “Lies – damned lies – and statistics,” still there are some easy figures the simplest must understand, and the astutest cannot wriggle out of. – Leonard Courtney, speech, August 1895, New York, "To My Fellow-Disciples at