John Hickenlooper Quotes

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.

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

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

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.

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

We live in a world in which we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots.

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

The biggest single challenge to America and our future is income inequality. We've got to fix it.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

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

Those of us who have been economically successful cannot forget those who have not.

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

You cannot fight poverty unless you have stability.

The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.

It's one thing to recognize that the gap between the rich and everybody else is growing like a cancer; it's another thing to come up with useful solutions.

Income inequality has become so prevalent in the U.S. that examples of its negative impact on the middle class are as common as Kanye West saying something cringeworthy in the media.

I fall into the camp that income inequality is the biggest problem we face.

If you look at European societies since the financial crisis began in 2008, with very, very few exceptions, the differences between rich and poor have increased, and sometimes hugely.

If the U.S. is the richest country in the world, why is it also the most unequal?

We need to focus much more on the bottom 40 per cent. They are losing ground, and the fact that they are losing ground blocks social mobility and brings down economic growth.

If you don't have money or you come from a background that doesn't have money, it's harder to achieve your ambition in life. It's not that you can't, but it becomes harder. Inequality is one of the worst things that can exist in our society, so I am interested in those kind of things.

I don't really care much about what the top one per cent earn. The gap we ought to care about in wealth is between the middle and the bottom.

What good is a high GDP if some, or even many, Americans are left behind?

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.