Jeffrey David Sachs

"One is reminded of Jesus’s own admonition: “Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye” . US military s…"

"The US is a force for division, not for cooperation... The US lost its step on 5G, which is a critical part of the new digital economy. And Huawei was taking a greater and greater share of global mark…"

"Von Hayek was wrong. In strong and vibrant democracies, a generous social-welfare state is not a road to serfdom but rather to fairness, economic equality and international competitiveness."

"Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Germany – are the countries with the largest so-called social welfare states. They... have a degree of equality that is unmatched in other parts of the world... A…"

"According to Pompeo , Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Communist Party of China harbor a “decades-long desire for global hegemony.” This is ironic. Only one country – the US – has a defense strate…"

"Though the United States is one of the world’s richest economies by per capita income, it ranks only around seventeenth in reported life satisfaction. It is superseded not only by the likely candidate…"

"The US foreign policy establishment had rhetorically justified America’s presence in Syria as part of the war on the Islamic State . With ISIS essentially defeated and dispersed, Trump called the esta…"

"When I talk about this in the United States, I'm often attacked, 'oh, you don't believe in the free market economy', I say, how much free market can there be? You say deregulate, the moment the banks …"