Mercedes Schlapp Quotes

The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.

Chronic insecurity will not be overcome by minimum wage laws, tax credits, means-tested benefits, or workfare.

A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

Middle class people, I think they realize that Romney is not for them because of his narrowness, but they want to make sure that Barack Obama is focused on them with things that will make a difference. They know he tried, but they also know that it didn't do as well as they would have liked.

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.

The biggest single challenge to America and our future is income inequality. We've got to fix it.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

I will be a President for the middle class.

If we are going to get a single mother off welfare and make her work, we should certainly make the private corporations contribute to the effort by giving up the over $1 Trillion of corporate welfare.

The poorhouse is vanishing from among us.... We ... today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land.... We shall soon ... be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation.

Poverty decreased in America as a result of the War on Poverty

Abolish Poverty

These institutions are generally more skilled at getting rich off those living in the lower economic reaches than they are in preparing them for the job market.

From the very beginning, I've talked about how we're going to strengthen the middle class in this country.

I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in the cities.

I believe America thrives when the middle class thrives.

To me, what socialism means is to guarantee a basic level of dignity. It's asserting the value of saying that the America we want and the America that we are proud of is one in which all children can access a dignified education. It's one in which no person is too poor to have the medicines they need to live.

We have to focus on growing the economy, getting people working again, so they can put a roof over their heads to provide health care and education for their children and plan for their retirement.

I want to help the middle class.

I understand welfare because I lived it. I understand the difference between a want and a need. The Republican Party promised to bring welfare change. We must deliver on this promise.

One of the flaws in the American dream is that there isn't as much of a safety net as you may get in other countries.

Everyone should have enough to be able to eat and sustain their families. I'm not saying everyone should become extravagantly rich but everyone should have sufficient food and good education.

Catholics want what other Americans want: access to health care and jobs that pay a living wage. They want to send their kids to good schools. They want something done about poverty.

We in the Congress Party are hoping to do greater efforts to help the people of India, especially the downtrodden who find it very tough to get ahead in life. We are focusing on tackling issues related to unemployment and poverty.