Eric Greitens Quotes

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

I'm a warrior for the middle class.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

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.

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.

Over 17 years, I took on banks, landlords, real estate firms, local governments, anybody who treated anybody unfairly.

What has always made the Clintons great politicians and better people is their unyielding commitment to expanding the middle class for everyone.

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.

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.

Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.

When I was leader of the GLC, by the time I had been in control for three years, the difference in pay between the cleaner and the director general was a four-to-one ratio. I find that attractive.

Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladders of opportunity for all, so everyone can succeed.

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington.

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.

I'd rather make less money and live in a just world.

We cannot run a democracy without a strong middle class.

The best social programs we've had in this country are those that have united the middle class and the poor.

A New Dealer regrets poverty and deplores the fact that it is necessary for society to slough off its misfits as an individual sheds his impurities and his diseases. But New Dealers believe that human want and human distress should be prevented or at least ameliorated.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.