129 Quotes by Lawrence Summers

He is not only an immensely talented and versatile performer, but also someone who has given a great deal of himself to the university and especially to the vitality of the arts at Harvard,

He has provided very important and valuable leadership on a range of issues from the Latin American debt crisis in the 1980s to the challenge of the transition economies following the fall of the Berlin Wall to the emerging market challenges of recent years.

Harvard's endowment is critical to the university's academic and financial aid programs and to its capacity for growth, ... the endowment will continue to be overseen and invested with the highest level of professionalism and expertise.

Jack Meyer did a great job for Harvard.

I think the approach we have taken in the administration, of focusing our energies and concerns on the fundamentals and working to strengthen those fundamentals, has been the prudent approach rather than focusing on the stock market,

Our national savings rate is still far too low, driven by a personal savings rate that is not where it should be,

We believe the global expansion needs to be balanced up, not balanced down, ... An adjustment should take place in our countries through increased public savings. Internationally, there needs to be an adjustment through an increase in exports rather than reduced imports.

Today, the IRS operates in a low-trust, short-tether budgeting environment, ... This makes rational planning for capital projects such as information technology very difficult.

When I first joined the Treasury some years ago, I can assure you we were not thinking about threats to the financial system emanating from viruses, Trojan Horses, logic bombs or malicious code, ... But we are thinking about those things now, and with good reason.