I don't think anybody really thinks that one should get rid of the World Bank. Reform is one thing, but getting rid of it I think would be wrong.

Most poor people earn more than minimum wage when they are working; their problem is not low wages. The problem comes when they are not working.

My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.

The national debt will have increased by approximately 50% in just eight years! We will have created a new unfunded entitlement - disability and health care benefits for the huge number of disabled veterans returning from the Iraq war.

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

Anybody who has watched government from the inside recognizes that governments need institutions, need ways to respond to crises.

The problem with NAFTA was with what we wanted. And there, the agenda had been set by our corporations. So what is true is that workers in the United States and workers in the developing countries were often disadvantaged. They were worse off. The big winners were our corporations.