David Hume Quotes

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.

Unless you’re at the very top, you need a more equitable economy.

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.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

In America there are none poor, and none even that can be called peasants. Each citizen has some property, and all citizens have the same rights as the richest individual, or landed proprietor, in the country.

We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves.

We should try to ensure that everyone has a fair opportunity to find a great life. It's a quest that will require political will and ingenious policies. President Obama's proposed expansion of the earned-income tax credit goes in this direction, but we need more.

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

Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious?

My mission is to eradicate poverty.

Putting middle class families in jeopardy in order to protect the wealthiest among us isn't consistent with the values and priorities that most Americans share.

As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

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.

No one should have more than five times the wealth of the poorest person.

The best social programs we've had in this country are those that have united the middle class and the poor.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

Every Man a King, Every Man a King; For you can be a millionaire; There's Something belonging to others; There's enough for all people to share.

There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.

Labour’s message then is this: we believe in a strong economy; we believe also in a fair go for all, not just for some.

How do we make sure that rising tides lift all boats and not just the yachts?

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.

To me, democratic socialism means democracy. It means creating a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthiest people in the country.

Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea.

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!