Harold Ford Jr. Quotes

We're going to do tax reform to let people keep more of what they earn, grow an economy, and be able to save for your children's future and buy a new house.

Policy designed to make the nation grow must build upon and must not frustrate the instinct of most Canadians to build a stake for themselves.

People getting rich in a free society in general - with some scammy exceptions, which are rare - makes everyone else richer, too.

The Populist Caucus is the only caucus in Congress devoted solely to addressing middle class economic issues. We formed the caucus because the founding members felt like there wasn't enough focus on middle class issues in Washington, and we're going to keep it focused on middle class issues.

My dream is for Malawi to be poverty-free, and I intend to eradicate poverty through economic growth and wealth creation.

Fair tax does not mean we don't want to encourage wealth creation. Wealth creation is how we raise the money to pay for world class schools and hospitals, for proper care of the weak, and dignity for the elderly.

The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.

Confidence in the future -- Hope -- gives power to individuals and communities. It is that which enables the poor man to become rich, and the character of all legislative action is to be judged by its greater or lesser tendency to produce this effect.

You can't spend your way to prosperity.

There is, happily, a non-redistributive approach to address income inequality - one that doesn't rely upon government. It's to grow the pie. That is, create more decent jobs that pay more.

You do need more revenues, and you do need to cut expenses. But you also don't want to go in a direction whereby increasing taxes creates a reticence to create new jobs. You don't want to increase taxes on work. You don't want to increase taxes on investment and the creation of wealth.

When I began modelling in my late teens, I started to earn a lot of money very, very quickly, but I'd never been shown how to manage it properly.

Once you learn to 'speak' money - which is what I felt I did through the research that led me to write 'Whoops!' - you start to see it at work all around you. It's like a language, a code written on the surface of things; it's in flow all around us, all the time.

It's fine if you are on TV and people are taking pictures with you but where is the money? That is what parents are concerned about.

When you talk about black entrepreneurship, you're talking about addressing the foundation of what's going on with our people when we don't have any financial power. Our basic needs aren't being met in a lot of cases, so there's no way we're going to be able to tap into our potential until we address those bottom-level base needs.

The long-term policies that will be most effective all have to do with investment: investing in ourselves, investing in opportunities, creating good schools, and creating situations where people can acquire skills that enable them to be successful.

For the poor, learning to manage money well is central to improving their lives.

Conservatives want to see every Canadian prosper.

There were a lot of assumptions that we were raised a certain way. Our dad was always really clear with us that he is rich and we are not: 'If you want to be rich, you should go do what I did, which is work really hard.'

The concept of 'Dhan Dhana Dhan' is an entertaining one, and I am sure the audience will like it.

All young people can benefit from practical business knowledge but especially those from the poorest parts of the country.

My middle class values are intact.

I believe there are ways of cutting past some of the ideological logjams in Washington when it comes to issues of American economic competitiveness and a pro-growth agenda.

Women aren't driven by or thrilled by outperforming the market. They're much more excited about, 'Can I meet my goal?'

No one can say that democratizing financial services is bad. It is good for communities, countries, the global economy, and educational progress.