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

Global demand for dollars has supplanted demand for manufactured goods and services, resulting in multilateral trade deficits and loss of jobs at home.

The international institutions go around the world preaching liberalization, and the developing countries see that means open up your markets to our commodities, but we aren't going to open our markets to your commodities. In the nineteenth century, they used gunboats. Now they use economic weapons and arm-twisting.

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

Not everybody is qualified to go to Stanford, but everybody should have access to the best qualify for which they are eligible.

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

The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.