Sri Mulyani Indrawati Quotes

There are only two families in the whole world, my old grandmother used to say, The Haves and the Have-Nots.

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

The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there. We have 300 million poor in India.

There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-nots, between the monied and the poor, between the educated and the non-educated. And there are huge and growing chasms daily. And I want to say that it's not simply about generation. It's about genre.

An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

The association of poverty with progress is the enigma of our times.

Poverty divide not only nations but societies within nations.

In the first phase of economic development you have rising inequality.

Inequality of income is bad for everyone, not just the poor and the middle class.

… perceptions of poverty have gone up because there’s been rising inequality.

The burning issue of our time is the growing inequality in income and wealth in our country.

It is easy to say that there are the rich and the poor, and so something should be done. But in history, there are always the rich and the poor. If the poor were not as poor, we would still call them the poor. I mean, whoever has less can be called the poor. You will always have the 10% that have less and the 10% that have the most.

Obama's economic policies widened the gap between the rich and the poor.

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.

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

To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.