David Autor Quotes

Many people don't think that the poor in the developing world can do work on a computer. They won't say it explicitly. But they think it's too sophisticated.

… poor people deserve access to food, education, housing, and medical services

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

There's a wider agenda that speaks to what the Democratic Party has historically stood for, which are economic rights for those who are struggling in the middle class, concern for the poor, for economic justice for those who are marginalized in our society.

I wake up every morning happy for where I am in life. It's not all about the cooking, but the fact that I can contribute by using my influence to help people all over the country. In the last two years, my partners and I have fed more than 10 million hungry people by bringing meat to food banks.

I've had a ton of fast-food jobs - it changes your approach to human interaction forever.

You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.

It is because of capitalism that we can pay for services to poor people that we don't even know.

If you are a representative, and poor people don’t vote, you’re not going to pay particular attention to the needs of the poor.

I believe in preferring the sanctity of human rights to the sanctity of property rights. I believe that the chief concern of government shall be for the poor because, as it is witnessed, the rich have ample means of their own to care for themselves.

The rich must protect the poor just as clothes protect the body.

We should remember the poor.

I never knew an instance of the English parliament's undertaking to relieve the poor, by a distribution of bread in time of scarcity.... I think, that according to the principles of their government, they would only vote a sum of money, and address the King to employ it for the best.

Bribing rich people to help poor people, rather than helping poor people directly, is a popular approach because the cost of tax breaks doesn't show up on the government books.

The war on poverty had not been undertaken at the request of the poor.

Do the poor in the United States and Western Europe wish to pay more to support higher labor standards in the developing world?

I’m really not concerned about the very poor. They have a safety net.

Giving away food only encourages the poor not to starve. Increase productivity, not employment. Insure profits before we insure people Don’t be haters! We’re job creators. Bailout banks, not these losers (people evicted by banks foreclosing on their mortgages).

By helping the poor, we must be able to remove their poverty. By extending help to one here and one there in the form of providing food will not remove poverty

For anyone who understands the current food crisis, it is hard to listen to the head of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, without gagging ... Zoellick waxed apocalyptic about the consequences of the global surge in prices, arguing that free trade had become a humanitarian necessity, to ensure that poor people had enough to eat ... The reason we’re seeing such misery as a result of this spike has everything to do with Zoellick and his friends.

Let’s make the poor richer.

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

Government becomes a burden only when it functions on behalf of the poor.

God wants us to show compassion and understanding toward the unemployed or the poor not because they are poor, but because poor people, with help from those who are already successful, can become rich. And when the poor become rich, all will benefit, because in our modern economy new unemployment is the first sign of economic growth.

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