Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Quotes

If you look at European societies since the financial crisis began in 2008, with very, very few exceptions, the differences between rich and poor have increased, and sometimes hugely.

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

The association of poverty with progress is the enigma of our times.

This country is very good at creating wealth, but not very good at distributing it.

No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth.

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.

Most of the time in America, we're surrounded by oppressive inequality such that the wealthiest 1 percent collectively own substantially more than the bottom 90 percent. One escape from that is America's wild places.

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

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there.

If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Republicans look after the rich, and Democrats focus on the needs of the middle class. Neither of them looks after the poor.

Never forget that there are rich people in poor countries and poor people in rich countries.

Hunger, the inseparable companion of the poor, is the offspring of the unequal distribution of the wealth and the injustices in this world. The rich do not know hunger.

There are only two families in the whole world, my old grandmother used to say, The Haves and the Have-Nots.

The poor will never cease out of the land.

Unequal wealth distribution is a risk factor for inequality that must be attacked by policies.

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

No society is healthy when the gap between the rich and the poor is growing.