Bill Clinton Quotes

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

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.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.

Haiti's economy cannot be built by and benefit just a privileged few. It must be built by and benefit all Haitians.

President Obama believes that income inequality is one of the most pressing matters facing the nation. If we are going to be a country that provides ladders of opportunity and believes in a thriving middle class, then we have to raise the minimum wage.

We will not rest until this war [on poverty] is won.

I try to deal with the poverty gap - to do policies for all of us rather than only for the wealthy.

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.

Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.

My mission is to eradicate poverty.

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.

I worry about growing income inequality. But I worry even more that the discussion is too narrowly focused. I worry that our outrage at the top 1 percent is distracting us from the problem that we should really care about: how to create opportunities and ensure a reasonable standard of living for the bottom 20 percent.

We cannot run a democracy without a strong middle class.

Government has a responsibility to the have-nots.

A New Dealer regrets poverty and deplores the fact that it is necessary for society to slough off its misfits as an individual sheds his impurities and his diseases. But New Dealers believe that human want and human distress should be prevented or at least ameliorated.

This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.

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

There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.

Let’s make the poor richer.

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

Prohibiting Poverty