White House and State Department foreign... by Jeffrey Sachs | We Heart Quotes

Author Development Professor economist Poverty

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.

- Jeffrey Sachs

Other quotes by Jeffrey Sachs

Financial Drama End

The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge.

- Jeffrey Sachs

Depression World Will

We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.

- Jeffrey Sachs

Idea

The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.

- Jeffrey Sachs

Government

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 and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.

- Jeffrey Sachs

Strength Right Now Will

There's a lot of strength in the U.S., but there's a lot of froth also. The froth will blow off. We're going to have to face up to some realities that we're not fully facing up to right now.

- Jeffrey Sachs

Ideas Sense Rest World

We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.

- Jeffrey Sachs

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