118 Quotes by Jeffrey Sachs

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

It's the American leadership that has not played the role it should be playing and that leaders in other countries have been playing.

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.

There is no economic imperative that will condemn us to deplete our vital resource base, but neither is there an invisible hand that will prevent us from doing so.

The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed.

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.

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

Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.

The defining challenge of the 21st century will be to face the reality that humanity shares a common fate on a crowded planet.