Orrin Hatch Quotes

We know that in our free market economy some will prosper more than others. What we don't accept is the idea that some folks won't even get a chance.

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.

Equality begins with economic empowerment.

I would change the tax system markedly. The market system is wonderful but you have to take care of the poople who are left behind and do not profit from it.

The American people need to know we understand that they elected us to fight for economic opportunity for all. We need to create America 2.0 - a multicultural, progressive, and innovative country that fights every day for ordinary people.

I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.

There's no future in being poor.

Since I became First Minister, I have made clear my priority to alleviate poverty and tackle inequality in Scotland. Ensuring that everyone can do better in life will not only make Scotland fairer, but it will also make it a more prosperous place.

A rising tide doesn't raise people who don't have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We have to give them the basic infrastructure to rise with the tide.

We need to conceptualize; we need to articulate conservative domestic policy with a laser focus on opportunity, on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder.

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.

The future of America is not an entitlement. We have been given a treasure chest of gifts and opportunities, but some people are being left behind, and success is not sustainable unless it is shared.

Remember, America's greatness is based on creating wealth like the rest of the world has never known, and then, making sure it's shared throughout a middle class and even the underprivileged.

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.

Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious?

What many economists fail to understand is that poor people are no less concerned about improving their lot and that of their children than rich people are.

I lived through a golden period where society felt that it was good to help people who didn't have a great deal of money fulfil their potential.

We cannot run a democracy without a strong middle class.

When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream.

the most just and equitable tax that can be devised.

Where else can a guy like me make it? Blind and poor---only in America.

The tax program is based upon a broad and just social and economic purpose ... not to destroy wealth, but to create a broader range of opportunity, to restrain the growth of unwholesome and sterile accumulations.

Money is the great leveler.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race, economic independence.

Taxes must produce ample revenues without discouraging enterprise; and if it is to be just it must distribute the burden of taxes equitably.