“Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I lik...” — James Tobin Quote

“Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.”

“I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis.”

“After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer.”

“I had the luxury of skipping the cabinet meeting to attend my daughter's graduation. So many people don't have the luxury of taking an hour away from the workplace to attend indispensable family commitments. We have to change that dynamic.”

“I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.”

“I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.”