“I remember sitting there on my father's couch or my mother's couch, li...” — James Heckman Quote

“I remember sitting there on my father's couch or my mother's couch, listening to this lecture about how there were two groups and we had to be separated. We've come a long way from this kind of open racism. And I think it's wonderful.”

“I'm instinctively cautious because I'm an academic.”

“You have kids growing up in some of the worst circumstances financially, living in some of the worst ghettos, and they succeed. They succeed because an adult figure, typically a mother, maybe a grandmother, nourishes the kid, supports the kid, protects the kid, encourages the kid to succeed. It's as if the environment never happened.”

“If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow.”

“In my spare time I like watching TV, laying on the couch, just chillin'.”

“For me, the best vacation is just relaxing on the couch!”