Keir Starmer Quotes

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

One thing that is clearly not maximized by free markets is equality. I am talking not about that pale substitute for equality known as equality of opportunity but about equality itself.

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

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

Government has got to work for all of us and not just for a few billionaires..

Unless you’re at the very top, you need a more equitable economy.

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.

Israel's middle class is paying for those below it, and that's fine, but also for those who are above it, and that's very wrong.

The French don't think everyone should have the same bank balance, but they're offended by extremes of inequality.

I don't think equality is intrinsically valuable, meaning in and of itself. I'm not against inequality... if Bill Gates gets another hundred million dollars, it's no skin off my nose.

Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What's the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth.

Governance should be designed as an equalizer. Democrats are more inclined towards working families and those who are struggling for a better life.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious?

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?'

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

We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody.

The issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.

Government has a responsibility to the have-nots.

The social order we have built recognizes no exploitation of man by man. In our country there are no rich people to live at the expense of the workers and peasants. Just as there are no poor people living on the charity of others.

No one should have more than five times the wealth of the poorest person.

Support of private ownership does not mean that anyone has the right to unlimited accumulation of wealth

The needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.