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

- Jeffrey Sachs

Every morning our newspapers could read, 'More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.' How? The poor die in hospital wards that la…

- Jeffrey Sachs

Without restoring an ethos of social responsibility, there can be no meaningful and sustained economic recovery.

- Jeffrey Sachs

At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development.

- Jeffrey Sachs

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 …

- Jeffrey Sachs

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

- Jeffrey Sachs

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

- Jeffrey Sachs

Tax the rich. End the wars. Break the power of lobbies in Washington. These are the demands of Occupy Wall Street. They are very important. The US co…

- Jeffrey Sachs

Our challenge, our generation's unique challenge, is learning to live peacefully and sustainably in an extraordinarily crowded world. Our planet is c…

- Jeffrey Sachs