Bill Clinton Quotes

In many cases democracy has not been able to solve the social problems like poverty.

Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

Poverty was not caused by the churches; so how can the churches solve the poverty problem?

Preventing poverty beats curing it.

I think inequality has gone past the point where it's helping us all get rich, and it's really becoming a serious threat.

If we are serious about breaking cycles of poverty, we have to change this (economy).

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.

Haiti's economy cannot be built by and benefit just a privileged few. It must be built by and benefit all Haitians.

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

Women in America cannot achieve our full economic and personal fulfillment as long as the concentration of wealth and power in the top 1% continues to stifle democratic voices and progressive policies.

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

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.

Rising inequality is toxic to growth. High levels of inequality exclude people - both as innovators and customers - diminishing both innovation and demand.

I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.

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

We have now had a long period of very limited participation in the growth of our society…. If you are going to have broad based political support for economic policies, you have to have broad based participation in the benefits of those policies…. This is a change of historic proportions.

This is the great moral issue of our day. 37 million people who live in poverty. It’s wrong.

The real threat to the democracy is the half a nation in poverty.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

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