Sendhil Mullainathan Quotes

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.

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.

The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor people richer.

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

I say I don't need a tax cut. It will not do me any more good. I can't buy more, I can't eat more, I can't do more, and I want it distributed among the ordinary people who work every day.

We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!

What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.

President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

This is the middle-class equivalent of raising the minimum wage.

Share the Wealth

You must not embark on programs to curb economic growth without placing a priority on maintaining income, so that the poorest people won’t simply be further depressed in their condition but will have a share, and be able to live decently.

Prohibiting Poverty

I'm a capitalist, and I believe that universal basic income is necessary for capitalism to continue.

Catholics want what other Americans want: access to health care and jobs that pay a living wage. They want to send their kids to good schools. They want something done about poverty.

A primary justification for a basic income is social justice.

I decided to run for Congress to get and keep people in the middle class.

Tax cuts that actually go to working-class, middle-class people, I'm not opposed to.

Since I became First Minister, I have made clear my priority to alleviate poverty and tackle inequality in Scotland. Ensuring that everyone can do better in life will not only make Scotland fairer, but it will also make it a more prosperous place.

I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.

Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.

My premise is not to tax to destroy the wealth of the wealthy; it's to increase the wealth of the bottom and the middle class.

I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.

It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act.

Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.

Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.