Stephen Moore Quotes

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty spread and special privilege grow.

There is growing inequality. The families of the all-powerful Ministers are getting richer. The poor and hard-working Belizeans are getting poorer.

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.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there.

I've seen it with my own eyes: When government takes money from the poor and the middle class, everyone suffers.

We face a dilemma because although everybody is better off than they've ever been at any time in our history, we've also got the biggest gap between the rich and the poor that we've ever had, and we've potentially got a planet which is going to go bust any day.

Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.

Government has a responsibility to the have-nots.

I don't think they [Congress] ought to balance their budget on the backs of the poor.

If you are poor today, you will always be poor. Only the rich now acquire riches.

There are corporations worth billions of dollars—and hundreds of thousands of people who don't get to eat.

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

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

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

We used to wage war on poverty—not poor people.

With industrialization the gulf between the employed and the employer is growing wider; social contrasts are becoming sharper—as liveried carriages appear, so do barefoot children.

No society is healthy when the gap between the rich and the poor is growing.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

It's one thing to recognize that the gap between the rich and everybody else is growing like a cancer; it's another thing to come up with useful solutions.

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.

There is plenty of housing - for the rich. But a series of outrageous policies ensure that it remains inaccessible to the poor.