Zong Qinghou Quotes

We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves.

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

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.

How do we make sure that rising tides lift all boats and not just the yachts?

Remember, America's greatness is based on creating wealth like the rest of the world has never known, and then, making sure it's shared throughout a middle class and even the underprivileged.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Rising inequality is toxic to growth. High levels of inequality exclude people - both as innovators and customers - diminishing both innovation and demand.

The economy must provide justice as well as prosperity.

Society can't function without shared prosperity.

When governance improves, there will be less have-nots and more haves.

We do not postpone the participation of the lower classes of our people in the profits of economic enterprise, and in other countries, they do postpone it. In the long run, I think our policy is better, and we stand by it.

And that is that we have never been: a nation of haves and have-nots. We are a nation of haves and soon-to-haves, of people who have made it and people who will make it. And that's who we need to remain.

As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together.

We must ensure the economy really works for all, to address unconscionable wealth and income disparities that allow access to opportunity for some over others.

We have an economy that's really geared toward rewarding the investor class. What are we doing to make sure that people who want to have a middle-class life are able to keep up?

You are not going to lift everybody out of poverty through the kindness of wealthy people.

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

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

If we are serious about breaking cycles of poverty, we have to change this (economy).

Prosperity isn't something that squirts out of rich people.

I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way.

We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.