Mark Udall Quotes

We have much more to fear from economic weakness in Europe than in economic strength in Europe.

Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.

I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.

Money can't buy poverty.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people. There has been a tremendous concentration of donor interest in countries that are seen as particularly fragile - but it becomes harder to mobilise money for sub-Saharan, plain poor countries.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

The root of all evil isn't money; rather, it's not having enough money.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

Nobody in America lives at the survival level, Most people in the world would love to live the way poor Americans live.

Europe is on an economic collision course with reality.

There are three ways by which an individual can get wealth—by work, by gift, and by theft. And, clearly, the reason why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much.

Halve the income of the country and you double the risk of civil war.

The strength of a nation depends in a great measure upon its wealth …

This contempt for money is a trick developed by the rich to keep the poor without it.

Russian international weakness was largely due to failures of Russian economic reforms, which made Russia extremely vulnerable, extremely dependent on foreign financial aid

I care not how affluent some may be, provided that none be miserable in consequence of it.

The declining security of African peoples as a consequence of warfare, predatory officials, and weak economies should not be eclipsed in the international community's pursuit of anti-terrorism campaigns.

The great fear of every patriot at this moment relates to our currency. The vast over issues of paper money have raised prices to such a pitch as to make the expenses of the Government enormous.... The poor suffer from this enormous inflation of currency. Beef is 1.25 per lb—Butter $4—Eggs 3—clothing is unobtainable ... coffee is $8—sugar 3, etc. so on. Shoes cannot be had under $50 to $60 the pr. for very common ones. God only knows where all this will stop.

If our economy is strong, that means the military will be strong. If our economy is weak, that weakens our military.

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

The current crisis is not simply a market failure in which prices are not functioning properly, but a profound loss of faith in money’s capacity to tell the truth.

If you lose control of your debt and deficit, you get massive cuts in things such as health and education. You get appalling insecurity, jobs lost, firms going overseas.

If you look at my life, I wasn't just poor; I was rich and poor.

A lot of people's circumstances can change very, very quickly, and people can move jobs, relationships can break down, something else could happen, and the next thing you know, you can't pay your rent, you can't get the support you require, and you're out on the street.