“This is an age of impunity, a time when the rich and powerful get away with their misdeeds, and are even lauded… — Jeffrey D. Sachs Copy Share Image
“we may well look back at the 2016 election as the moment when the corruption and sheer incompetence of Washington became so… — Jeffrey D. Sachs Copy Share Image
“Come Senators, Congressmen, Please heed the call, Don’t stand in the doorways, Don’t block up the halls…For the times they are a… — Jeffrey D. Sachs Copy Share Image
“The energy and daring is to resist the noes, until the final yes has been achieved.” — Jeffrey D. Sachs Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
