Henry Ford Quotes

Unequal wealth distribution is a risk factor for inequality that must be attacked by policies.

The prime culprit in causing contemporary social inequality seems to be merit.

The greatest issue before the people—the question of special privilege and unequal distribution of wealth.

One thing that is clearly not maximized by free markets is equality. I am talking not about that pale substitute for equality known as equality of opportunity but about equality itself.

For all the obsession in Washington and in college faculty lounges over income inequality, why isn't there more outrage over government policies that exacerbate the problem? There are hundreds of programs that make the poor poorer and increase poverty in America.

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.

We know that in our free market economy some will prosper more than others. What we don't accept is the idea that some folks won't even get a chance.

Why did the world ever become so unequal?

Attacking poverty is very expensive, and means doing things politically that are either impossible or very difficult to bring off.

When I was a young fellow I was very much disturbed by there being some people with lots of money and lots of people with no money.

It is the enormity of existing economic disparities that convinces me that only through new partnerships and coalitions, which unite private, public and quasi-public institutions, can they be overcome.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

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.

The gap between aspiration and reality could hardly be wider. Today, the United States has less equality of opportunity than almost any other advanced industrial country. Study after study has exposed the myth that America is a land of opportunity. This is especially tragic: While Americans may differ on the desirability of equality of outcomes, there is near-universal consensus that inequality of opportunity is indefensible.

Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.

Well, as you know, there are many things in life that are not fair, that wealthy people can afford and poor people can’t. But I don’t believe that the federal government should take action to try to make these opportunities exactly equal, when there is a moral factor involved.

Poverty is a national issue and needs a federal response. After all, U.S. federal government policies helped produce massive income inequality by lopsided breaks for the super wealthy.

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

Nobody talks about the poor. Everybody talks about the middle class and just kinda want to ignore that the poor exist. And you cannot ignore that they exist if you want to help them.

If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources. We lack something else.

Rising inequality is not a law of nature - it's not even a law of economics. It is a consequence of political and economic arrangements, and those arrangements can be changed.

All countries have poor people. Yet it's a very rare country which understands the indignities of poverty, while education systems maintain the status quo. The children of the elite go to the best schools and get the best jobs, not because they are the best. We're not taking advantage of the intellectual power on this planet.

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.