Jimmy Carter Quotes

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

There's no doubt about it: Hillary is the best person to be our 45th president. Hillary has always been a tireless advocate for working families - she's never ceased to make sure everybody has a fair shot at achieving the American Dream.

I stand for the square deal.... I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but I stand for having those rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and reward.

Fair Shares for All, is Labour's Call

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions — it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

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

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

I don't subscribe to the view that people who are better off don't want to live in a more equal society.

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

Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladders of opportunity for all, so everyone can succeed.

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

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.

Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.

President Obama believes that income inequality is one of the most pressing matters facing the nation. If we are going to be a country that provides ladders of opportunity and believes in a thriving middle class, then we have to raise the minimum wage.

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

Our goal is a classless society.

Education ... is the great equalizer of the conditions of men—the balance wheel of the social machinery.

The tax program is based upon a broad and just social and economic purpose ... not to destroy wealth, but to create a broader range of opportunity, to restrain the growth of unwholesome and sterile accumulations.

Democracy must knock the rough edges off capitalism so that capitalism is safe for everyone and not just the big boys.

Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

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.

It's not class warfare to talk about fairness.

There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea, however, has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them.

We believe in a government that trusts people and doesn't limit where you finish because of where you started.