Bill Clinton Quotes

Rising inequality leads to less sustainable growth.

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.

It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems.

To deal with radicalism and extremism, we need to deal with economic inequality. This is what I learned from my experience in Solo and then in Jakarta.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

Global poverty is falling faster today than at any time in human history.

Every country has a part that is undeveloped.

You cannot fight poverty unless you have stability.

One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.

There is an increase in inequality in the early stages of development.

The world has grown rich and refined, but chiefly by the efforts of those who themselves continue poor and ignorant.

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

… authors generally neglect that growth has lifted billions of people out of grinding poverty and that others may remain poor because of the developed world’s environmental concerns …

It's not enough to tackle just the symptoms of poverty. You have to tackle the causes of poverty.

Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'

Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

We oppose the benefit cap. We oppose social cleansing. We will bring the welfare bill down by controlling rents and boosting wages, not by impoverishing families and socially cleansing our communities.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

Poverty and lack of education are ruining our planet.

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.

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

I myself am from a very poor background; I experienced firsthand poverty in this country, and that is not unrelated to my desire, from the moment I became president, to make a priority of poverty reduction in this country.

Does inequality in the distribution of income increase or decrease in the course of a country's economic growth?