Jeffrey Sachs Quotes

The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.

Without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families.

Maybe I'm less sensitive to these issues because I see that what people need first is economic security, and only when they have that can they afford to focus on human rights.

Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.

We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.

If women had better access to the financial system - even so much as a basic deposit account at a bank - it would be a major step in the direction of greater wealth and greater economic empowerment.

Democracy is liberty plus economic security. We Americans want to pray, think as we please—and eat regular.

Only a well fed, well housed, well schooled people can enjoy the blessings of liberty.

I'm someone who thinks that the world would be a better place if there was a big middle class. I mean, middle class is peace. In a perfect world, everybody would have enough to eat and we'd be living in security. It's obvious. I'm very happy to pay my taxes and all that. I would say I'm more of a Social Democrat.

People need to have enough to eat and have work and money. But there are other things that are important.

I've seen that most of us want the same things: to be safe where we live, secure in our finances, and free in our lives.

There should be whole-hearted, full commitment to remove poverty - only we are doing it.

Our core attention is to bring prosperity in the life of common man, and all-out resources have been used for his facilitation.

Money is like manure. It's most effective when it's spread around widely.

Real freedom must include economic security.

Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.

While no amount of financial wealth can guarantee an experience of prosperity, it is possible to experience prosperity at almost any level of income, except when we are unable to meet our basic physical needs.

I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.

People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it's about a lot more than being able to make money.

Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.

Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.

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

But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.

We need love, and to ensure love, we need to have full employment, and we need social justice. We need gender equity. We need freedom from hunger. These are our most fundamental needs as social creatures.