Lael Brainard quotes

“When women were excluded from New Deal programs, Eleanor Roosevelt fought to include them. Roosevelt was among a handful of leaders who realized the US economy would not escape the depths of recession without the full contributions of women.”
-- Lael Brainard

Source : "Political leaders often overlook the key to economic growth: women" by Lael Brainard, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2013.

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“President Obama has called for economic and political empowerment of women globally. The Equal Futures Partnership promotes removal of policy, legal, and regulatory barriers that hold women back at local, state and national levels.”
-- Lael Brainard

Source : "Political leaders often overlook the key to economic growth: women" by Lael Brainard, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2013.

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“The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.”
-- Lael Brainard

Source : C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics, www.cfr.org. January 21, 2011.

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“President Obama has a good sense not just of the economic requisites for financial crisis firefighting but also how you build political support for moving forward on reforming the financial system, making sure that the banks are carrying enough capital.”
-- Lael Brainard

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“It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.”

“I must follow them. I am their leader.”

Source : Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1932). “Conflicts of Principle”

“Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.”

“But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.”

“Richard A. Posner is an extraordinary person. If he did not exist, it would be hard to believe that he could. (...) He writes with a flair that puts most journalists to shame and a depth of knowledge that puts most professors to shame.”

“Just to be clear, if, like Pat Robertson, you somehow missed all the evidence, all the research, the depth and breadth of all the knowledge garnered about HIV and AIDS over the past three decades, you cannot get HIV if you share towels,”

“Nothing that happens on the surface of the sea can alter the calm of its depths”

Source : Andrew Harvey (2010). “The Direct Path”, p.249, Random House

“There is no resting place for an enterprise in a competitive economy.”

Source : Alfred P Sloan (2015). “My Years With General Motors”, p.15, eNet Press

“The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.”

Source : "The cure is working" by Alistair Darling, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2009.

“The trustworthiness of servants is the basis of the entire Indian economy.”

Source : Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.105, Atlantic Books Ltd