New Congress Quotes by Jeffrey D. Sachs

“The energy and daring is to resist the noes, until the final yes has been achieved.”

— Jeffrey D. Sachs

“Is there a way forward, when campaign financing and mega-lobbying have displaced the common good and have led Americans to despair about the functioning…

— Jeffrey D. Sachs

“Over the course of nearly a half-century, Cuba, Congo, Ghana, Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Iran, Namibia, Mozambique, Chile, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and…

— Jeffrey D. Sachs

“The vast differences in power contributed to faulty social theories of these differences that are still with us today. When a society is economically…

— Jeffrey D. Sachs

“The scale of U.S. military operations is remarkable. The U.S. Department of Defense has (as of a 2014 inventory) 4,855 military facilities, of which…

— Jeffrey D. Sachs

“The rich control our politics to a huge extend. In return they get tax cuts and deregulation. It's been and is an amazing ride…

— Jeffrey D. Sachs

“Here is my recommendation for President Trump and the new Congress. Turn immediately to our glorious national institutions, the National Academies of Science, Engineering,…

— Jeffrey D. Sachs

“The current situation reminds me too much of the fable of the farmer whose chickens are dying. The local priest gives one remedy af-…

— Jeffrey D. Sachs

“Similarly, though the United States is one of the world’s richest economies by per capita income, it ranks only around seventeenth in reported life…

— Jeffrey D. Sachs

“The political beauty of our online age is that it’s now actually feasible—and urgently necessary—to reengage the public in just this way. In Aristotle’s…

— Jeffrey D. Sachs

“four very powerful corporate lobbies have repeatedly come out on top and turned our democracy into what might more accurately be called a corporatocracy.”

— Jeffrey D. Sachs

“This is an age of impunity, a time when the rich and powerful get away with their misdeeds, and are even lauded for them…

— Jeffrey D. Sachs

“There is a major economic difference, however, between now and 1991, much less 1950. At the start of the Cold War in 1950, the…

— Jeffrey D. Sachs

“we may well look back at the 2016 election as the moment when the corruption and sheer incompetence of Washington became so large and…

— Jeffrey D. Sachs

“With higher saving and investment rates, both public and private, directed towards productive capital, the United States could overcome secular stagnation.”

— Jeffrey D. Sachs