Martin O'Malley Quotes

No matter how wealthy a few plutocrats get, we can never drive a great national economy. Only a thriving middle class can do that.

I know why we're strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it's because there's always been a growing middle class.

The most pro-business thing you can do is to help middle-class people thrive.

What has worked for America is not caring about how the rich are doing, or the politics of envy. What's worked for America is growth. Growth is the reason why I had a very nice middle class upbringing with parents who never went to college.

It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class.

Because we believe that you got to build the economy from middle out and not from the top down.

Americans have historically been more willing than Europeans to tolerate high inequality levels if accompanied by strong economic growth and a healthy middle class.

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.

And as we work together, we will build a better America! As we work together, we will bring the middle class to thrive again! As we work together, we will make sure that everybody has the ladder of opportunity to climb!

There is no western, capitalistic country in which the conditions of the masses have not improved in an unprecedented way.

We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class.

A high proportion of the population enjoys many of the 'luxuries' which until recently were considered the prerogative of the rich; and the ordinary worker lives at what even two decades ago would have been considered in Britain a middle-class standard of life.

My mission is to raise incomes for hard working middle class families. If you work hard and do your part you should be able to get ahead and stay ahead.

Progress is not striving for economic justice or fairness, but economic growth.

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

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

Our economy grows from the middle out, not the top down.

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.

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

The middle class is the engine of this economy.

You cannot have a strong, resilient economy unless you have a strong resilient middle class.

Middle class prosperity—economics—depended on middle class power—politics.

It is past time to acknowledge that economic growth … is good, and that what the world needs is more of it.

American and world history show that if you want minimal government, you can have it—but only if you want almost everyone in your society also to be a dirt-poor, subsistence farmer. If you want a prosperous, growing modern economy, you need high specialization and a huge, complex, interdependent network of individuals, businesses, research centers and education. And only government has the authority or money to regulate that network and to regularly pump in the targeted funds needed to sustain and grow it.

I believe America thrives when the middle class thrives.