Gina Raimondo Quotes

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

The burning issue of our time is the growing inequality in income and wealth in our country.

It's not my fault that there is this gap between rich and poor, it is the fault of governments. I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter.

The association of poverty with progress is the enigma of our times.

The biggest drag on global growth in the coming decade will be income polarization.

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.

The income distribution system constructed in the 20th century has broken down, and it will not come back.

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.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

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

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

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

The needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

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

Poor men's words have little weight.

History shows that when you have continuing income inequality it is an invitation to class conflict.

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

Income inequality is the central problem all the way across the world.

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

We cannot continue to have the upper class wealty getting richer and richer, the middle class shrinking and 43 million living in poverty.

I agree that income disparity is the great issue of our time. It is even broader and more difficult than the civil rights issues of the 1960s. The '99 percent' is not just a slogan. The disparity in income has left the middle class with lowered, not rising, income, and the poor unable to reach the middle class.

I think in the last thirty years, the rich have gotten richer and the poor have gotten poorer. It is not something that you can see with rose-colored glasses.