Punit Renjen Quotes

Abolish Poverty

There is no question that we, as a country, need to deal with economic inequality across the country, and we need to make sure we have good-paying jobs for everyone.

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

I'm a warrior for the middle class.

Our Dream Is A World Free Of Poverty.

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

The global economy should not be supported by wage earners. They have to be able to build a future like any other human being.

The economy must provide justice as well as prosperity.

Destroy poverty, that source of crime, by assuring to each the satisfaction of all needs! And how difficult is this to achieve?

Politicians should tell working Americans what they need to hear, not what they want to hear. And what they need to hear is that it is possible for all Americans to have good lives, even if the can’t all have good jobs.

How do we make sure that rising tides lift all boats and not just the yachts?

This should be the message of Occupy Wall Street: We just want a chance; our government needs to give us a chance.

We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves.

We don't need to solve the problem of the rich-poor gap. We need to solve the problem of common prosperity.

We, the Social Democrats, are convinced that capitalism needs to be tamed a second time. The first time we achieved that in Germany for many decades with the social market economy. That is no longer enough. Now we need to do it in Europe and even globally.

I say I don't need a tax cut. It will not do me any more good. I can't buy more, I can't eat more, I can't do more, and I want it distributed among the ordinary people who work every day.

We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.

Haiti's economy cannot be built by and benefit just a privileged few. It must be built by and benefit all Haitians.

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.

We need to have the social investments by which to quote unquote distribute some of that wealth.

Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.

We want an economic team, Paul Krugman and Robert Kuttner, Joseph Steiglitz's people and others, who say, you know what? We're sophisticated economists but we're concerned about poor and working people.

Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.

I suggest to you that increasing the size of America's economic pie - which can be achieved only if everybody has a seat at the table - is the most important challenge facing our country today.

We have now had a long period of very limited participation in the growth of our society…. If you are going to have broad based political support for economic policies, you have to have broad based participation in the benefits of those policies…. This is a change of historic proportions.