Sigmar Gabriel Quotes

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use

The best cure for poverty is a booming economy.

Every country has a part that is undeveloped.

There are three ways by which an individual can get wealth—by work, by gift, and by theft. And, clearly, the reason why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much.

The wealth of a country is in its working people.

Poverty violates core American values. It challenges the American dream’s promise of prosperity for anyone who works hard, a faith central to the national ethic.

We are told, if you work hard, you'll succeed—but if that were true, Black people would own this country.

The United States has the highest poverty rate [and] the greatest … wealth inequality of any major developed economy in the world…. No other developed country is as addicted to poverty and inequality as we are, and yet somehow they prosper.

It's interesting - the greatest country in the world, we shouldn't have people starving. We shouldn't have young people not getting something to eat.

Through our own hard work and ingenuity, America has spent much of its history as the world's dominant economic power. But our dominance is not pre-ordained - history does not roll along on the wheels of inevitability.

I'm from a place where young people traditionally do not have resources.

We can't just cut our way to prosperity. Even as we look for ways to reduce deficits over the long term, we must grow the economy in a way that strengthens the middle class and everyone willing to work hard to get into it.

I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.

I learnt a hard fact: that dignity is a luxury in our country.

I think what Donald [Trump] is saying is that it's unacceptable to him that members of the African-American community - and I'm sure he will say this about other communities as well - who live in violence, who are subject of that, or who do not have the educational opportunities that every child in this country should have so they can reach their fullest potential, that that's unacceptable.

There is no western, capitalistic country in which the conditions of the masses have not improved in an unprecedented way.

Of course money buys happiness. You ever seen a homeless person skip? The answer to that riddle's no. They're not allowed.

Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want.

The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.

I cannot live on an island of prosperity when I'm surrounded by a sea of misery.

The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

As long as we give room for domination and the dominators, there will be worries and worried people. Poverty and pestilence will live eternally in the country.

We live in a country [USA] where the belief is that anyone can succeed, but for so many here, and for the majority of the world, that's not the case. In many parts of the world, women and poor people are at a huge disadvantage - certain rights and protections don't exist, and they don't have the chance of upward mobility.

Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and then you will know, not whether or not the country is just, but whether or not it has any love for justice, or any concept of it. It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.