Hillary Clinton Quotes

We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class.

Our economy grows from the middle out, not the top down.

The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.

A generation of entrepreneurs will mop up poverty at a rate that no government ever could.

We can't just be the party of redistribution of wealth; we need to be the party of the creation of wealth in communities all over the country, not to just Silicon Valley, not just Wall Street, but all over.

Look at the growing middle class in India. Small businesses are not just a source of jobs and prosperity: they are the driving force of social justice too.

What animates me in politics are the economic issues of opportunity.

If we wanted a program to help the majority of the population, we'd offer loan guarantees to help poor people get access to reliable cars so that they could have a better shot at getting - and keeping - a well-paying job...A small amount of capital could make a much bigger difference in their lives than extra student loan relief for middle-class college kids would.

We've got to get back to rebuilding the middle class, the families of America. That's where growth will come from.

There's a ton of stuff we can do to help the economy and help the American people, and the aspirational working class of the American people.

As President, I am determined to offer leadership to overcome our current economic problems. My goal is for jobs for all who want to work and economic opportunity for all who want to achieve.

The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.

The best social reform program in the world is a job.

The real solution to the problem of poverty consists in finding how to increase the employment and earning power of the poor.

The number one job facing the middle class. And it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: Jobs. J-O-B-S.

I should never seek a job in my life, my mission in life is to create jobs. I am not a job seeker, I am a job giver.

It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class.

To realize President Obama's vision of opportunity for all, it's all about making the right match. The way we do that is through job-driven training - connecting ready-to-work Americans with ready to be-filled jobs. It helps more people secure a foothold in the middle class and helps businesses to profit and grow.

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

Anything that benefits the public and not just big banking, that's what I'm with.

But this convention is about more than re-nominating President Obama. It's about Americans coming together to build one economy - not from the top down, but from the middle class out and the bottom up.

I was the one that brought it in, but not only for the north-east, for every area so we can develop all the regional economies, lift up the national productivity, get greater wealth and share it more evenly.

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

Americans are falling out of the middle class, not into it. And they deserve relief. I absolute support extending the Bush tax cuts for those who work the hardest and invest the most in our economy - the real drivers of American growth, the middle class.

People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it's about a lot more than being able to make money.