Barack Obama Quotes

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

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

No one should have more than five times the wealth of the poorest person.

Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

This country is very good at creating wealth, but not very good at distributing it.

Broad-based, inclusive growth is what we need in America, not more advantages for people at the very top.

Let me ask you: Should only children of the wealthy have access to quality early education? Should only children of the wealthy have access to a college degree? The answer - the only answer - is: no.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

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.

America's 'social contract' is equal opportunity... yet we have failed in achieving that seminal goal.

The issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.

If class warfare is being waged in America, my class is clearly winning.

The association of poverty with progress is the enigma of our times.

Distribution of the wealth of the world is something for which no one sees a practical solution

The distribution of wealth is just as important as its creation.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

Today, half of the national income goes to the richest 10 percent. In 2007, the top 1 percent controlled 34.6 percent of the wealth—significantly more than the bottom 90 percent who control just 26.9 percent.

America is the land of equal opportunity. The reality is that we are not delivering on that promise.

Liberty is impossible if 36 thousand families at the top of the economic pyramid get as much income as 12 million families at the bottom.

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

Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea.

'Redistributing the wealth' - that phrase gets used so much that you almost get numb to it.

Having an economy that works for the 99% is achievable.

What good is a high GDP if some, or even many, Americans are left behind?