Dalia Mogahed Quotes

Where do people earn the Per Capita Income? More than one poor starving soul would like to know. In our countries, numbers live better than people. How many people prosper in times of prosperity? How many people find their lives developed by development?

The developing world is poor. It needs capital.

I don't think we can have democracies that work where most of the people are not benefiting economically, where most of the people are worried about their job security.

Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

It's always the rich and there's plenty to waste, yet still China has a lot of people living in very spare, poor conditions.

When people talk of the economy being strong, they don't seem to feel that they, too, are better off.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera.

Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash.

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

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.

If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.

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

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

Republicans look after the rich, and Democrats focus on the needs of the middle class. Neither of them looks after the poor.

Society’s willingness to provide for the poor among them increases when the standard of living is advancing.

All over the globe the U.S. is fighting to protect and develop at least a minority who consume what the U.S. majority can afford.

Revolutions break out when opposite parties, the rich and the poor, are equally balanced, and there is little or nothing between them.

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