Martha MacCallum Quotes

Well, as you know, there are many things in life that are not fair, that wealthy people can afford and poor people can’t. But I don’t believe that the federal government should take action to try to make these opportunities exactly equal, when there is a moral factor involved.

Obama is a leveler. He has come to narrow the divide between rich and poor. For him the ultimate social value is fairness. Imposing it upon the American social order is his mission.

Fair Shares for All, is Labour's Call

We must create a kind of globalization that works for everyone... and not just for a few.

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

I think inequality is fine, as long as it is in the common interest. The problem is when it gets so extreme, when it becomes excessive.

If you get so unequal that people believe they don't have a chance, that the field isn't level for them and their children, that puts democracy at risk.

Government has got to work for all of us and not just for a few billionaires..

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.

We can have a democracy or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.

There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.

Labour’s message then is this: we believe in a strong economy; we believe also in a fair go for all, not just for some.

It's not class warfare to talk about fairness.

Unless you’re at the very top, you need a more equitable economy.

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.

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

We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

No man should be made poor so another man can be made rich.

How do we make sure that rising tides lift all boats and not just the yachts?

We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

One thing that is clearly not maximized by free markets is equality. I am talking not about that pale substitute for equality known as equality of opportunity but about equality itself.

I don't subscribe to the view that people who are better off don't want to live in a more equal society.

The French don't think everyone should have the same bank balance, but they're offended by extremes of inequality.

If the goal is truly about equality, it has to be about a goal of saying everybody should end up in the same place.  And since we didn’t start in the same place.  Some folks might need more equitable distribution. 

This economic pie that is getting ready to explode before our eyes is going to be shared equally.