Behinds Quote by Lawrence Summers

Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I…

— Lawrence Summers

I promise you that there are a lot of people involved in various kinds of retail activities who think they have a crucial role…

— Lawrence Summers

A good rule of thumb for many things in life holds that things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then…

— Lawrence Summers

In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.

— Lawrence Summers

There are children who are working in textile businesses in Asia who would be prostitutes on the streets if they did not have those…

— Lawrence Summers

I have always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.

— Lawrence Summers

It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today. Our prosperity is…

— Lawrence Summers

But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained…

— Lawrence Summers

All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?

— Lawrence Summers

The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of…

— Lawrence Summers

One of those disturbing tendencies in academic life is that there is a desire on the part of many in the name of open-mindedness…

— Lawrence Summers

As long as we keep our fundamentals strong...the dollar (and) U.S. borrowing costs will do just fine.

— Lawrence Summers