Hillary Clinton Quotes

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.

Creating wealth is not an end in itself. It needs to be shared by all.

We need to have an economy that works for everybody, not just people on the top.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

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

A strong economy is perfectly consistent with concern for equity and economic justice.

The economy must provide justice as well as prosperity.

It's not class warfare to talk about fairness.

All we seek is an America where every person is given the chance to productively contribute to his country and where he can receive a fair and equitable share of the wealth that production creates.

We've got a lot of work to do economically in this country to bring about a more just and fair economy.

Progress is not striving for economic justice or fairness, but economic growth.

Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.

In America there are none poor, and none even that can be called peasants. Each citizen has some property, and all citizens have the same rights as the richest individual, or landed proprietor, in the country.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

We have made great strides, but somehow we've got to create a climate so that everybody can do well, not just some.

Putting middle class families in jeopardy in order to protect the wealthiest among us isn't consistent with the values and priorities that most Americans share.

As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.

Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.

The superrich should pay higher taxes in order to restore the inclusive society that I grew up in.

That’s not the way to create wealth The way to create wealth is to be fair to everybody.

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

Every Man A King

We’ve taken care not to penalize the wealthy but we have to redistribute some income …It is through reform that we can obtain fairness in the modern world…A reformed welfare state is the only way to obtain social justice.