118 Quotes by Jeffrey Sachs

Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world.

You can't fight the greatest pandemic for years without resources,

The essence of Africa’s crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even the barest of minimum resources to address any of the public health crises that Africa faces.

Soil mapping is one of the pillars to the challenge of sustainable development.

We need to defend the interests of those whom we’ve never met and never will.

Our challenge, our generation’s unique challenge, is learning to live peacefully and sustainably in an extraordinarily crowded world. Our planet is crowded to an unprecendented degree. It is bursting at the seams. It’s bursting at the seams in human terms, in economic terms, and in ecological terms.

The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to understand that an economy may need some tender loving care, not just the so-called hard truths, if it’s going to get by.

Deep down, if we really accept that their lives – African lives – are equal to ours, we would all be doing more to put the fire out. Its an uncomfortable truth.

I believe myself that there’s a great deal more interest and engagement among Americans than our politicians recognize.