Andrew Ng Quotes

Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.

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

The 'People's Budget' rewards hard work and invests in our country. It ensures that everyone has an opportunity to get a good education, find a good job, live in a safe and secure home, put food on the table, have affordable health care, save for retirement, and maybe have a little left over.

The social justice movement of the 21st century is economic development.

We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves.

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

We should try to ensure that everyone has a fair opportunity to find a great life. It's a quest that will require political will and ingenious policies. President Obama's proposed expansion of the earned-income tax credit goes in this direction, but we need more.

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.

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.

But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.

The more I support with my economic plans the building of a middle class, the quicker they're going to turn around and say, 'Hey, we want a bigger say in things.' So, I knew what I was getting into right at the beginning. It's the right thing to do.

President Obama believes that income inequality is one of the most pressing matters facing the nation. If we are going to be a country that provides ladders of opportunity and believes in a thriving middle class, then we have to raise the minimum wage.

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

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.

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

We will not rest until this war [on poverty] is won.

In a good society, those in the middle and at the bottom ought to benefit significantly from economic growth. When the country prospers, everybody should prosper.

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.

There should be whole-hearted, full commitment to remove poverty - only we are doing it.

A primary justification for a basic income is social justice.

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.

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

The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.

I believe in capitalism for everybody, not necessarily high finance but capitalism that works for the working men and women of this country who are out there paddling alone in America right now.