Richard Cordray Quotes

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

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

You must not embark on programs to curb economic growth without placing a priority on maintaining income, so that the poorest people won’t simply be further depressed in their condition but will have a share, and be able to live decently.

Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up on Sunday nights pacing the floor, like my dad did, while their children, tucked in bed, dream big dreams. Families who aren't sure what Monday morning will bring, but who believe our nation's best days are still ahead.

Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.

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.

We should see better and more direct measurements of economic well being.

The more time I spent in developing countries, and the more time I spent talking to poor people, I realized what they want more than anything is a good job.

We don't want to saw off the first rung of the economic ladder.

For the first time in America's history, poverty is on the run.

Money is ammunition and the surest way I know to make lasting friends, to earn trust and create peace is by providing meaningful jobs, putting people back to work so they can feed their families.

Let’s make the poor richer.

As Ohio's working families continue to recover from the worst economic recession in our country's history, we need a president who's committed to growing our economy by lifting up the middle class.

We have to have an economy that is strong for everyone, working families who believe they can get ahead and give the children a better quality of life.

Most people recognize that to create jobs is really the essential element in their drive against poverty.

What we need is a safety net that lifts people out of poverty - that helps them earn a good paycheck so they can support themselves.

A job is the best cure for poverty, and that's why economic development and job creation has been my principle focus.

We prefer paychecks to welfare checks for the American people and a robust middle class with rising wages.

Poverty is poverty. At the end of the day, people want a job.

The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor people richer.

When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.

But this convention is about more than re-nominating President Obama. It's about Americans coming together to build one economy - not from the top down, but from the middle class out and the bottom up.

Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.

Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.

Simply expanding Medicaid does not improve health care outcomes. In Louisiana, instead we're helping people getting better paying jobs so they can provide for their own health care.