118 Quotes by Jeffrey Sachs

History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.

We're going to have to forgive a great deal of the Soviet era debt. There's no question about that. Let's face up to that. We're going to have to put in money if Russia is really going to consolidate a democracy.

The essential truth for developing countries is, if you try to live by yourself, you will cut yourself off from the amazing progress of world technology. You won't be able to purchase the goods that you need from abroad, because you're not exporting to the rest of the world. You have to be part of the world system.

We're fighting all the wrong wars in this country.

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.

We've waited 20 years, until we have 36 million infected in the world, before we've started to do something, ... It's shocking how we've let this go on. And costs of intervening today are vastly greater than they would have been in the past and they'll be greater if we continue to dither on this.

America's planned contribution to the global AIDS fund is around a sixth of what is needed in 2003, according to the fund itself.

There is no doubt that Malawi needs 100 percent debt cancellation as soon as possible, and I will do everything possible to speed that up.

Let's start fresh with Russia on some real help and some real reform.