There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no libertarians in financial crises.

If you're doing your job right, some substantial group of people [is] going to be mad at you.

Economics is not a morality play.

Outrageous fiscal mendacity is neither historically normal nor bipartisan. It’s a modern Republican thing.

The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century ... has taken place via globalization.

Simple doesn't mean stupid. Thinking that it does, does.

The great thing about fiscal policy is that it has a direct impact and doesn't require you to bind the hands of future policymakers.

If you want to understand opposition to climate action, follow the money.

We should try to create the society each of us would want if we didn't know in advance who we'd be.

The federal government is basically an insurance company with an army.

In our country, learned ignorance is on the rise.

Middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action.

Debt is one person's liability, but another person's asset.

Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.

I've never really done any interviews as myself.

I think in all small towns, all kinds of working-class communities around the world. They are kind of similar.

I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.

I don't know if I'm brave.

We say that "to let woman drive a car is like to let monkey fly a plane".