Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting.

- Peter Blair Henry

I think my wife would take objection to any characterization of me as perfect.

- Peter Blair Henry

As an economist, I'm aware that life is full of trade offs.

- Peter Blair Henry

Business is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth for creating wealth and opportunity and helping to lift people out of poverty. When you th…

- Peter Blair Henry

In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.

- Peter Blair Henry

Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the m…

- Peter Blair Henry

Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of the twentieth cen…

- Peter Blair Henry

You can actually make a lot of money and do a lot of good in the world. I don't see those things as being in opposition to one another. I never have.

- Peter Blair Henry

I think that whether you're on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious analyst I know agrees that at some point …

- Peter Blair Henry