George W. Bush Quotes

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

Prohibiting Poverty

Well, it's the last step of the civil rights movement: You know, wrap your hands around some money, right?

Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.

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

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race, economic independence.

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.

My goal is to eradicate poverty. I think we can't have equality until we eradicate poverty.

As someone who has dealt with economic hardship, I am committed to making the changes necessary for our country to become more equitable. And to do so, I believe we need to think big.

The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence.

The biggest thing the money Infosys brought me is the freedom to do what I want. And what I want is to give millions more the opportunities I had.

In order to have economic democracy you have to have equal access to property.

America is a young country, with small inequalities of property, and without manufactures. Few people are here dependent on the rich, for every man has an opportunity of becoming rich himself…the people of New England enjoy an equality of condition unknown in any other part of the world.

It’s what you have to do to find a way to kick poverty’s ass.

What I always say is that money doesn't have colour. It doesn't matter whether you are from Africa or anywhere in the world. The colour of money is the same.

Equality begins with economic empowerment.

There's no future in being poor.

Since I became First Minister, I have made clear my priority to alleviate poverty and tackle inequality in Scotland. Ensuring that everyone can do better in life will not only make Scotland fairer, but it will also make it a more prosperous place.

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.

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it's about a lot more than being able to make money.

You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology, you can't fulfill your dreams.

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

And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.