Peter Orszag Quotes

The fact of the matter is right now politicians and insurance companies are making decisions. We’re saying we want doctors to be making decisions. And I think that will lead to a higher-quality, lower-cost system over time.

Every day is like that, eight successive meetings on eight different topics, every one really important and interesting.

There’ve been times where I wondered whether it was worth continuing in my own education.

For example, I was privileged to be working at the White House under the Clinton administration and had not finished my Ph.D., and I thought I was the cat’s meow.

My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.

It is a foregone opportunity that we could have a trillion dollars more of income for the United States if we were producing at capacity rather than falling so far short of it.