Park Won-soon Quotes

It is absolute poverty that you could end, but I think relative poverty is a whole other issue.

There are many countries in the world that when they reached the middle-income stage, they witnessed serious structural problems such as growth stagnation, a widening wealth gap and increasing social unrest.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

We need to build an Argentina with zero poverty.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

There are more and more products with fewer people able to consume them. We have to help those who don't have the economic stability to grow, or one day there will be very few who are able to buy what we're selling.

Poverty affects people of all races.

South Korea's economy is still difficult. I will create a country where nobody worries about putting food on the table.

We have to look to the well-being of the Lebanese citizens and create prosperity in the country, and you can't create prosperity without stability.

We have become stronger economically; we have been successfully resolving the social problems, raising the level of living - the standards of living - of the population.

One of the biggest challenges facing the globe is the gap that exists in the wealth and standards of living enjoyed by the world's nations.

Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.

No one should be richer than a ten millionaire and no one should be without a home.

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

Reducing poverty is in our own interest.

In a morally adjusted economy ... the rich should not get richer if the poor get poorer.

You cannot fight poverty unless you have stability.

And I do not intend to lead a state where we simply tolerate poverty in our communities.

Economic inequality is a corrosive force that undermines economic growth, puts a brake on the fight against poverty, and sparks social unrest.

The rich did well under Obama's policies; it was the working class that got creamed. This was because the economy just wouldn't grow as it usually does.

I've always thought my main concern is to alleviate the burdens on people, who were earning less money, perhaps than £80,000.

Yes, there is a burden of financial insecurity. I don't think you find it in mood. Income is correlated with life satisfaction, so maybe you do find it in life satisfaction. You don't find it in mood, and I think it is very important.

An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor.

It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.

Americans are falling out of the middle class, not into it. And they deserve relief. I absolute support extending the Bush tax cuts for those who work the hardest and invest the most in our economy - the real drivers of American growth, the middle class.