Nicolas Sarkozy Quotes

Income inequity has to be addressed.

Those who work ought to live better than those that don't.

In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works a full time job should have to live in poverty. That's a fundamental value proposition, an article of faith in our country that I know an overwhelming majority of Americans agree on.

Nobody who works full time should have to live in poverty.

We should be helping people who actually need it, people working hard while their paychecks aren't increasing as much as they should.

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

I myself am from a very poor background; I experienced firsthand poverty in this country, and that is not unrelated to my desire, from the moment I became president, to make a priority of poverty reduction in this country.

It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits.

The biggest single challenge to America and our future is income inequality. We've got to fix it.

It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

The issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

A strong economy is perfectly consistent with concern for equity and economic justice.

If you work, you should not be poor.

Riches run after the rich, and poverty runs after the poor.

I know of only three ways of living in society: one must be a beggar, a thief, or a wage earner.

Most poor people earn more than minimum wage when they are working; their problem is not low wages. The problem comes when they are not working.

Poverty is a national issue and needs a federal response. After all, U.S. federal government policies helped produce massive income inequality by lopsided breaks for the super wealthy.

We've got to do more to ensure that people who work full time are not living in poverty and that the massive gap between rich and poor - which is fundamentally un-American, as far as I'm concerned - is somehow dealt with.

In Manipur, mostly the top player's family background is very poor. I also come from a poor family, so we have to do more hard work to get money and a better life.

We have an economy that's really geared toward rewarding the investor class. What are we doing to make sure that people who want to have a middle-class life are able to keep up?

Coronavirus has exposed for all what many of us already knew - some of our most important workers have barely enough to live on, and millions are condemned to financial insecurity, inequality and food poverty.

When people listen to Jay-Z, they're working all day or trying to work and pay their bills, and what they hear is someone who's free. Who doesn't have to worry about the electricity. But all we're taught is that those who are rich deserve to be rich because they worked harder than the rest of us, or they're smarter.

There is no reason for a person to have thousands of millions of dollars.