Stephen Goldsmith Quotes

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

The needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich

Wealth does not trickle down to the poor. Oxfam knows this, the IMF knows this, the World Bank knows this. Poor people have always known this.

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

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. We have 300 million poor in India.

No one should be richer than a ten millionaire and no one should be without a home.

Never forget that there are rich people in poor countries and poor people in rich countries.

Hunger, the inseparable companion of the poor, is the offspring of the unequal distribution of the wealth and the injustices in this world. The rich do not know hunger.

The poor will never cease out of the land.

In a morally adjusted economy ... the rich should not get richer if the poor get poorer.

There are corporations worth billions of dollars—and hundreds of thousands of people who don't get to eat.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

Yet today our splendid theory of government is confronted by a great peril. We have become blind to evils that menace us. We are confronted with glutted markets and idle labor. It is a condition that makes it possible for a few men to become landlords of a proud city like this while God's poor are packed in the slums. Such a condition is not only a menace to Republican institutions, but a travesty upon the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.

This country is very good at creating wealth, but not very good at distributing it.

Inequality of income is bad for everyone, not just the poor and the middle class.

The greatest issue before the people—the question of special privilege and unequal distribution of wealth.

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

There is growing inequality. The families of the all-powerful Ministers are getting richer. The poor and hard-working Belizeans are getting poorer.

There's more poor people in this country than there are rich, and I stick up for the poor people.

I think in the last thirty years, the rich have gotten richer and the poor have gotten poorer. It is not something that you can see with rose-colored glasses.

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

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.'

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.