Paul Weyrich Quotes

Some say economics has all kinds of good tools and techniques, but it has an absence of interesting problems. I look around the world, and I see all kinds of interesting, important problems we ought to solve with the tools we have.

If you look hard at it, if you look hard at the bleeding heart attitude to always throw money at issues, throw money at problems, what you're in fact probably saying is you're exercising a prejudicism of low expectations.

I'm going to give away a lot more than half my money. I'd be happy to give that to the government if the government put together programs that were like I'm giving away to charity, in which I believe the money is effectively used to help people.

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

There is a legitimate concern about wealth distribution in the United States, but the answer is not to scapegoat any individual who makes over $200,000 per year and to try to sell the fraud that the government can equitably take the money of those who have earned it and give it to those who haven't.

Live Below the Line raises real money to help the world's poorest people, but it is also a symbolic demonstration aimed at highlighting - not replicating - the plight of the world's poor.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

There is no silver bullet. I know people in Washington want grand solutions for everything.

Well, as you know, there are many things in life that are not fair, that wealthy people can afford and poor people can’t. But I don’t believe that the federal government should take action to try to make these opportunities exactly equal, when there is a moral factor involved.

You know there's problems - you can see all the poverty and so on - but it's quite another matter to know what you can do about it.

The Union government can do a lot more for poor states like Orissa.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

The distribution of wealth is just as important as its creation.

Problems of persistent poverty cannot be addressed unless they are acknowledged.

We just don’t have enough money to be trying to create nations.

The fact that policies often fail for no good reason is annoying but less depressing than the view that it is a big conspiracy against the poor… Name your favorite enemy… capitalism, corruption … Our view is easier. You think hard about the problems and you can solve them.

There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country really needs is a good five-cent nickel

The world’s biggest problems are the world’s biggest business opportunities.

Of all the instrumentalities which have been conceived by the mind of man for transferring the bread which one man earns to another man who does not earn it, I believe the gold standard is the greatest.

Poverty is a national issue and needs a federal response. After all, U.S. federal government policies helped produce massive income inequality by lopsided breaks for the super wealthy.

I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.

We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

The mess in the world is a strong driver because, at the end of the day, it's the increasing unacceptability of the divergences and rifts in the world economically, socially, politically, and culturally which lead everybody to say, 'We have to do something.'

Social Security is the greatest swindle of the poor ever.