Bill de Blasio Quotes

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!

I'm a warrior for the middle class.

If we are going to get a single mother off welfare and make her work, we should certainly make the private corporations contribute to the effort by giving up the over $1 Trillion of corporate welfare.

No, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders, people don't want handouts. They want purpose.

I'm trying to stand up so that the middle class, the working class, can finally have a say. I put them as my No. 1 priority.

Instead of helping a lucky few to escape disadvantage, a Labour government will aim to abolish poverty completely and create a more equal society, raising the living standards and well-being of all.

I think poverty is the biggest challenge for Los Angeles and for many of our cities that have come back from the recession.

I am working hard to ensure that working families can continue to afford to live in our city.

It's really Democrats who are fighting for working families and small businesses and trying to address the biggest problems that we have, which are huge disparities in incomes and wealth and money influencing the Democratic process.

I believe the challenge the city faces is attracting continued development into the inner and western part of Jersey City. Nobody should be left behind as Jersey City continues to prosper and grow.

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

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.

Americans are falling out of the middle class, not into it. And they deserve relief. I absolute support extending the Bush tax cuts for those who work the hardest and invest the most in our economy - the real drivers of American growth, the middle class.

A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.

People who work full-time in America should not have to live in poverty - simple as that. Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead. Too many people are finding the rungs on the ladder of opportunity further and further apart.

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California.

We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.

I will be a President for the middle class.

To reduce inequality, employment must be sustained by appropriate macroeconomic policy.

We’ve taken care not to penalize the wealthy but we have to redistribute some income …It is through reform that we can obtain fairness in the modern world…A reformed welfare state is the only way to obtain social justice.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labor as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged.

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