equitable prosperity Quotes

We have learned to turn out lots of goods and services, but we haven't learned as well how to have everybody share in the bounty. The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

This present system by which industry is motivated exclusively by the quest for maximal profits - though it may have helped a great deal to develop, to industrialize our country so rapidly and so successfully - now it's clearly passed its usefulness. It is keeping us from achieving the ideal society that we should have. We say industry must produce to improve the quality of life for all our people.

My administration's compact with the Filipino people will demand no less than the attainment of lasting peace and equitable prosperity. We will employ all the tools at our disposal to achieve this.

If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.

Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security.

Our history has shown us that the strongest growth in our economy is inclusive, broad-based growth.

No generation has had the opportunity, as we now have, to build a global economy that leaves no-one behind. It is a wonderful opportunity, but also a profound responsibility.

We need to have an economy that works for everybody, not just people on the top.

We have to make our economy work for everyone - not just those at the top - protecting our country and protecting our planet.

This tough-love, winner-take-all narrative dominating policymaking is far too limited a way to think about how a complex, modern, diverse economy like ours expands and thrives. The strongest periods of economic growth in the 20th century were also times when incomes rose across the board.