Nicolas Sarkozy Quotes

A human born somewhere in this world doesn't have the same chances as another one born in Paris, England, or the U.S. We don't have the same chances at the beginning.

Why did the world ever become so unequal?

I didn't believe one man should have so much services and another man should have none.

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

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

People don't want to have to justify their privileges; they don't want to have to justify having access to the power and resource that wealth brings. And by not talking about it, they are able to hold onto their power without being questioned, and I think that makes them feel more secure.

Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.

The messenger matters. When people of modest means complain about inequality, it usually gets written off as class warfare, but when billionaires complain, the problem is redefined.

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

Opportunity seems to be color-coded here in America

We will not settle for a state that will settle for an underclass.

When I was a young fellow I was very much disturbed by there being some people with lots of money and lots of people with no money.

one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.

To be concerned about inequality is not engaging in class warfare.

The greatest issue before the people—the question of special privilege and unequal distribution of wealth.

No harm is done by the possession of Luxury by some people if only at the same time EVERYBODY HAS ENOUGH. The wrong incurred by the rich toward the poor lies solely in the fact that while they revel, the poor starve

Some people say we have this inequality because some people have been contributing much more to our society, and so it's fair that they get more. But then you look at the people who are at the top, and you realize they're not the people who have transformed our economy, our society.

I'm not interested in defending the position of those who already have money, power and privilege.

All of us kids in the neighbourhood had to go shoeless for the same reason - all except the landlord's son, because his father had more income.

I think that we value fairness in this country. We value equal opportunity. Without a stable home, those ideals really fall apart.

All countries have poor people. Yet it's a very rare country which understands the indignities of poverty, while education systems maintain the status quo. The children of the elite go to the best schools and get the best jobs, not because they are the best. We're not taking advantage of the intellectual power on this planet.