106 Quotes by Angus Deaton

In Scotland, I was brought up to think of policemen as allies and to ask one for help when I needed it.

The history of Montana has been of the government giving land grants to people that could not possibly turn it into decent farms. And that's destroying their lives. So they don't see the government as something that's out there to help them.

I both love inequality and am terrified of it.

I think putting numbers together into a coherent framework always seemed to me to be what really matters.

Those of us who were lucky enough to be born in the right countries have a moral obligation to reduce poverty and ill health in the world.

After a day's fishing, I'll know the solution to something or have good ideas that were not accessible before.

It's a murky world out there, and it's hard to figure things out sometimes.

I'm not a left-wing nut pushing for single-payer!

You accumulate emotional wisdom as you get older. You know, when you're 25, you go on blind dates with people that, when you're 50, you know to stay away from.