It certainly was difficult to sell NAFTA because it's always difficult to sell open markets.

Investment in girls' education may well be the highest-return investment available in the developing world.

With uncertainty in oil markets, a buildup of speculative pressures and the large U.S. current account deficit, there is a real possibility that Paulson's crisis-management skills will be tested.

Many children are taught to believe in God. I came to believe in the power of systems analysis.

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major banking crises a quarter century from now, the one that America developed in 2007 and 2008 is going to be one of those crises.

Deflation and secular stagnation are the risks of our time.