Carrie Lam Quotes

I'm driven by the gaps, the things that are missing, the areas where marginalized people exist - and where the least resources are available for them.

It's hard to get people to empathize with the poor. You can get some people to sympathize with the poor, but to empathize is actually very hard, because most people are not poor. I realized that scarcity gives you a thread.

I do not object to butchering quite so much if everybody gets a fair share of the hog. But when a favored few get all the ham and pork chops, and the rest of the people get just plain old sow belly, at least the people are entitled to know what they are swallowing.

Although I was born into the America that experiences and believes in opportunity, my trips to Ferguson, Detroit, Atlanta, and Chicago have revealed that there is an undercurrent of unease.

I'm from a place where young people traditionally do not have resources.

Peasant people ... don't have a chance to share in the riches that the planet can offer because some people are taking off so much of the pleasures of this world, and there's only so much to go around.

One family should not have to have five case managers to get help from one state agency.

There are many things in life that are not fair …. I don’t believe that the Federal Government should take action to try to make these opportunities exactly equal.

I didn't believe one man should have so much services and another man should have none.

Poverty breeds a lack of self reliance.

This is a third world environment.

Every country has a part that is undeveloped.

There are two separate systems in America. One for the privileged, and one for everybody else.

The free market is the most efficient for utilizing resources and responding to needs, but there are many human needs which find no place on the market.

It is not fair that some people should have a better chance in life simply because of where they live.

If the people are not getting what the people need, you shouldn’t be paying for it.

The chief problem with lower income farmers is poverty

The First Law of Class Warfare: Once inequalities develop, the upper classes can, with relative ease, drastically reduce the probability of success for any equalizing challenges to the system.

With shrinking resources, interest groups are pitted against each other.

The inequality that exists today, … derives less from the unequal availability of opportunity than from the unequal ability to exploit opportunity …

We live on a planet of limited resources - an abstract notion for some of the world's population, but for many of the poorest and most vulnerable, those limits are all too real.

I guess if you have had a good education as opposed to someone who hasn't been to school, you start off on this journey having studied Shakespeare for years and years or studied classics. I suppose why people see this big divide - the boarding school boys getting all the roles - is because they feel like some people have had a head start.

There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.

We were poor, but we didn't know it. There were no government bureaus in those days presuming to determine where poorness begins and ends, but I don't remember ever being hungry.

I grew up less than a mile from folks that lived in shacks with dirt floors. I certainly know that there are needs in this country. Not too far from your house, if you look around, people need to be helped.