Helen Clark Quotes

Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time.

Huge inequality gaps in a democratic society will tend to erode the respect for and security of doctrines of private property. The large majority must either own property or have reasonable prospects of attaining property if they are to support and maintain private property laws and traditions.

In a good society, those in the middle and at the bottom ought to benefit significantly from economic growth. When the country prospers, everybody should prosper.

Average working people need more fresh starts. Big corporations, banks, and Donald Trump need fewer.

In America there are none poor, and none even that can be called peasants. Each citizen has some property, and all citizens have the same rights as the richest individual, or landed proprietor, in the country.

We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves.

The American dream is still to own your home.

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.

We want an economic team, Paul Krugman and Robert Kuttner, Joseph Steiglitz's people and others, who say, you know what? We're sophisticated economists but we're concerned about poor and working people.

In order to have economic democracy you have to have equal access to property.

You must keep the wealth of the country scattered, and you must limit the amount that any one man can own.

America is a young country, with small inequalities of property, and without manufactures. Few people are here dependent on the rich, for every man has an opportunity of becoming rich himself…the people of New England enjoy an equality of condition unknown in any other part of the world.

Unless you’re at the very top, you need a more equitable economy.

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

The concentration of wealth in the hands of the few threatens the ability of ordinary people to raise their voices and have a say over how our societies are run.

I want a capital-earning democracy. Every man and woman a capitalist. Housing is the start. If you're a man or woman of property, you've got something. So every man a capitalist, and every man a man of property.

The chance to own a home; chance to own an education; chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil rights battle of the twenty-first century.

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream.

I believe in capitalism for everybody, not necessarily high finance but capitalism that works for the working men and women of this country who are out there paddling alone in America right now.

There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.

Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.

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

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.