Matt Damon Quotes

You cannot have a strong, resilient economy unless you have a strong resilient middle class.

Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job.

I know why we're strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it's because there's always been a growing middle class.

I believe America thrives when the middle class thrives.

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.

We cannot run a democracy without a strong middle class.

What makes this country different is that we have a great middle class.

In a good society, those in the middle and at the bottom ought to benefit significantly from economic growth. When the country prospers, everybody should prosper.

We have to have an economy that is strong for everyone, working families who believe they can get ahead and give the children a better quality of life.

Every country has rich people. But only a few places have achieved a vibrant and stable middle class. And in the history of the world, none has been more vibrant and more stable than the American middle class.

And as we work together, we will build a better America! As we work together, we will bring the middle class to thrive again! As we work together, we will make sure that everybody has the ladder of opportunity to climb!

We have an economy that's really geared toward rewarding the investor class. What are we doing to make sure that people who want to have a middle-class life are able to keep up?

Poverty is poverty. At the end of the day, people want a job.

No matter how wealthy a few plutocrats get, we can never drive a great national economy. Only a thriving middle class can do that.

America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.

There are more and more products with fewer people able to consume them. We have to help those who don't have the economic stability to grow, or one day there will be very few who are able to buy what we're selling.

One thing we're going to focus on is the middle class and the crushing prices and stagnant wages they're facing. What motivates me is looking at my 3-year-old son and thinking about what we're passing on to him and his future wife and their future kids.

But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.

I am a social democrat - I believe in pursuing greater equality and tackling social justice - but... you can't do that unless you have got a strong economy, unless you have got a vibrant business base earning the wealth that makes that possible.

The poorhouse is vanishing from among us.... We ... today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land.... We shall soon ... be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation.

For the first time in America's history, poverty is on the run.

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

I want to give people a basic income, so that if you're working hard, doing the best you can, that you can not just survive, but you can have a decent life.

From the very beginning, I've talked about how we're going to strengthen the middle class in this country.

We should not chip away at the protections that have built the largest economy and the largest middle class in the world.