Robin Wright Quotes

We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.

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.

I've often said that far more sensible than a 'make poverty history' campaign would be a 'make wealth history' campaign. It is, after all, the wealthy people who do all the damage. The less money you earn, the fewer resources you use up.

We must create a kind of globalization that works for everyone... and not just for a few.

The debate that I'm interested in having is with seriously smart people about how we design institutions in the 21st century that will genuinely address problems of poverty and educational underachievement.

President Obama's approach embodies the values, the ideas, and the direction America must take to build a 21st century version of the American Dream in a nation of shared opportunities, shared prosperity and shared responsibilities.

There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.

Destroy poverty, that source of crime, by assuring to each the satisfaction of all needs! And how difficult is this to achieve?

For income growth to occur in a society, a large fraction of people must experience changes in the possible lives they imagine for themselves and their children, and these new visions of possible futures must have enough force to lead them to change the way they behave.

We used to wage war on poverty—not poor people.

A new business model based on old principles of social justice where people matter - now that's a revolutionary way to reduce inequality.

Global growth and development that is strong, sustainable, and inclusive requires the challenges of inequality to be met head-on.

You are not going to lift everybody out of poverty through the kindness of wealthy people.

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.

Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.

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

If we cannot provide excellent educational opportunities to all children, safe communities, quality health coverage, or robust and fair avenues towards wealth creation, then our nation will increasingly be in peril.

I have always said that I want Malawi to attain growth that should not just be seen in GDP, but in the growth of opportunities for all, protection for all, and equality for all.

Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious?

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

I don't get up in the morning and think my mission is to end Britain. I do get up in the morning and think that my mission is to end poverty.

My mission is to eradicate poverty.