Lawrence Summers Quotes

"In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car."
- Lawrence Summers
(Related: Car, History, World)

"The availability of private insurance provides tremendous insulation for millions of individuals."
- 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
(Related: Children, Jobs)

"It certainly was difficult to sell NAFTA because it's always difficult to sell open markets."
- Lawrence Summers
(Related: Open)

"I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted."
- Lawrence Summers
(Related: Thought, Countries)

"I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to it."
- Lawrence Summers
(Related: Country, Logic, Wage, Waste)

"Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization."
- Lawrence Summers
(Related: Globalization)

"But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place."
- Lawrence Summers
(Related: Government, Climate, Universe, Years)