Investment in girls' education may well be the highest-return investment available in the developing world.

- Lawrence Summers

All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?

- Lawrence Summers

The only antidote to dangerous ideas is strong alternatives vigorously advocated.

- Lawrence Summers

Deflation and secular stagnation are the risks of our time.

- Lawrence Summers

Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you where you are going be…

- Lawrence Summers

There are children who are working in textile businesses in Asia who would be prostitutes on the streets if they did not have those jobs

- Lawrence Summers

The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developm…

- Lawrence Summers

If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accounta…

- Lawrence Summers

A good rule of thumb for many things in life holds that things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then happen faster than you though…

- Lawrence Summers