“We should at least make sure that patients are given the opportunity t...” — Richard Thaler Quote

“We should at least make sure that patients are given the opportunity to opt out of spending their final days in a hospital, hooked up to tubes and running up enormous bills.”

“We all need a lot of humility, and especially about the economy.”

“The supply price and the demand price should be roughly the same. You're not supposed to have two different prices. According to economists.”

“F.D.R. had an economic crisis of unprecedented proportions in 1933 when he drove 15 major bills through the Congress, and super majorities in the House and the Senate in 1935 when he won passage of Social Security.”

“I was broke from 19 to 26, borrowing money from my parents or my brothers or sisters every week to pay the bills.”

“I'll be at the table, as I've been, willing to talk to any Republican who says, 'Look, my country is more important, this pile of bills is not going to go away, the challenges that we have is not going to disappear, we need to cross that divide.' I'm ready. I'm waiting.”