Communication Quote by Lyndon B. Johnson

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I've been talking about income inequality in America for twenty years, and when I was president, people didn't pay much attention to it, probably…

— William J. Clinton

One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.

— Robert Menzies

Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human…

— Dale T. Mortensen

Everybody has to remember that economics is very tied to politics.

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

I think that it's difficult to talk about large questions of economics or social policy without understanding the building blocks of society. And those…

— Robert Reich

Economists have put themselves in a position where what they are doing is supposed to be impossible to understand for outsiders, so they dont…

— Thomas Piketty

Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants?

— Robert Solow

Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Economists have much to be humble about.

— Paul Samuelson

The problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion.

— Joseph Stiglitz

I had never taken any economics. I literally didn't know what it was. I thought it was just about the study of money.

— David Autor