Anand Mahindra Quotes

There are all these people in this country who are just not participating in the American Dream at all.

You learn pretty fast that there is no magic solution to poverty.

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

For people who are at the bottom economically, the world is becoming a harder and harder place. And yet the incentives to become rich are so great because enormous amounts of wealth are being accumulated. And so those two things, that carrot and stick, are beating people along this trajectory of trying desperately to move up in the world.

If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.

Many of my friends and family are scratching it out somewhere decidedly south of the ever widening gap between the haves and have nots, looking at losing their homes, colleges they can't afford and healthcare they can't avail themselves of.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

Preventing poverty beats curing it.

There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.

No society is healthy when the gap between the rich and the poor is growing.

You can't wish away poverty overnight.

We are a country that has always been known for providing opportunities to people. We have lost a lot of that opportunity.

The trajectory of this country [USA] is not positive and particularly for the disadvantaged, as we see what's happening. The gains in productivity have dropped, the gains in income for the middle class and the least advantaged have slowed, at best.

Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they're still poor.

We've created rules and taxes on top of every aspiration of people, and the net result is we're not growing fast, income is not growing.

To see poor people, their benefits being cut, to see pensions of Americans who have worked like my father, all their lives, and taken away, to see the rich just accumulating more and more wealth. I mean, it seems to me that there has to be a point where you have to say, 'No, this has to stop.'

For many, the American dream has become a nightmare.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.

We know that in our free market economy some will prosper more than others. What we don't accept is the idea that some folks won't even get a chance.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

What many economists fail to understand is that poor people are no less concerned about improving their lot and that of their children than rich people are.