London Breed Quotes

We are an aspirational society. We believe that circumstances of your birth do not determine your outcome. You shouldn't have to be born to wealthy parents or the right zip code to be successful and do great things in our country!

It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.

… poor people deserve access to food, education, housing, and medical services

In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means.

Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead.

I think that's what all New Zealanders who are fair-minded want - a good chance for everybody to get ahead, whether it's education or housing.

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.

I started life in a poor family and could not even afford a proper tertiary education.

I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have.

It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's gonna wanna do that? Because that's what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period.

Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children.

You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out.

Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.

I can't really speak to the other parts of the economy, but what I think is very true of the tech world is that it's easy for talented people - whatever their gender, age, or race - to rise up and succeed.

I believe that it is higher education's purpose and calling to keep open the door to the American dream.

Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account.

Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.

No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.

Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president.

This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.

Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

Education … is the great equalizer of all the other conditions of men.

It is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get wealthy. I don’t believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.

In a country where there is no privileged class, genius and industry may attain the highest honors.