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> [The idea that the UN system could provide real leadership on the great development challenges will strain credulity in some quarters.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-sachs/the-idea-that-the-un-system-could-provide-real-leadership-on-the/)

[Jeffrey Sachs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-sachs/)

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## More by Jeffrey Sachs

> [Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-sachs/senior-development-specialists-in-the-treasury-can-be-counted-on-one/)

[Jeffrey Sachs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-sachs/)

> [We're going to have to forgive a great deal of the Soviet era debt. There's no question about that. Let's face up to that.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-sachs/we-re-going-to-have-to-forgive-a-great-deal-of-the-soviet-era-debt/)

[Jeffrey Sachs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-sachs/)

> [The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even the barest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-sachs/the-essence-of-africa-s-crisis-is-fundamentally-its-extreme-poverty/)

[Jeffrey Sachs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-sachs/)

> [Business often does a good job supporting communities: the arts, universities, and scientific enterprises... But that philosophy has rarely reached poor countries. Even businesses…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-sachs/business-often-does-a-good-job-supporting-communities-the-arts/)

[Jeffrey Sachs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-sachs/)

> [In the early 1990s, when a lot of the developing world opened up to international capital flows... they ended up in very good long-term…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-sachs/in-the-early-1990s-when-a-lot-of-the-developing-world-opened-up-to/)

[Jeffrey Sachs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-sachs/)

> [The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-sachs/the-key-to-ending-extreme-poverty-is-to-enable-the-poorest-of-the/)

[Jeffrey Sachs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-sachs/)

> [The world got side-tracked from development issues during the post-9/11 crisis period.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-sachs/the-world-got-side-tracked-from-development-issues-during-the-post-9/)

[Jeffrey Sachs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-sachs/)

> [Tax the rich. End the wars. Break the power of lobbies in Washington. These are the demands of Occupy Wall Street. They are very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-sachs/tax-the-rich-end-the-wars-break-the-power-of-lobbies-in-washington/)

[Jeffrey Sachs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-sachs/)

> [If we did go into a recession, something that's always possible for the U.S. or Europe, we could lower interest rates and expand the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-sachs/if-we-did-go-into-a-recession-something-that-s-always-possible-for/)

[Jeffrey Sachs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-sachs/)

> [The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-sachs/the-russian-drama-began-at-the-end-of-1991-when-the-soviet-union/)

[Jeffrey Sachs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-sachs/)

> [I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-sachs/i-think-the-imf-helped-to-detonate-the-indonesian-crisis/)

[Jeffrey Sachs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-sachs/)

> [The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-sachs/the-essence-of-africa-s-crisis-is-fundamentally-its-extreme-poverty-2/)

[Jeffrey Sachs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-sachs/)

> [The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-sachs/the-debts-are-unaffordable-if-they-won-t-cancel-the-debts-i-would/)

[Jeffrey Sachs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-sachs/)

> [White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-sachs/white-house-and-state-department-foreign-policy-experts-are/)

[Jeffrey Sachs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-sachs/)

> [Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-sachs/let-the-future-say-of-our-generation-that-we-sent-forth-mighty/)

[Jeffrey Sachs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-sachs/)

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