George F. Will Quotes

The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor people richer.

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

What I believe in, in terms of getting our economy going again, is that we need to invest in opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow.

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

A generation of entrepreneurs will mop up poverty at a rate that no government ever could.

It is past time to acknowledge that economic growth … is good, and that what the world needs is more of it.

We can't just cut our way to prosperity. Even as we look for ways to reduce deficits over the long term, we must grow the economy in a way that strengthens the middle class and everyone willing to work hard to get into it.

A rising economic tide not only raises all ships but prevents them from bumping into each other.

You cannot have a strong, resilient economy unless you have a strong resilient middle class.

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.

Productive and sustainable job creation, along with increased and better-targeted social expenditure, are the only routes to permanently beat the poverty trap and to bring our social indicators on par with developed countries.

You alleviate poverty by trickle-down economics.

The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.

It wasn't simply that Clinton created the greatest prosperity in the country's history. Or that we created 22 million new jobs, more than ever before. Under Clinton, poverty was reduced 25%.

By strengthening the economy, providing job opportunity and meeting the needs of working families, we can ensure the continued prosperity of our nation.

We believe that business is good because it creates value. It is ethical because it is based on voluntary exchange; it is noble because it can elevate our existence, and it is heroic because it lifts people out of poverty and creates prosperity.

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.

I want to create economic opportunity at home and abroad. I don't want just one or the other. I want both.

Business is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth for creating wealth and opportunity and helping to lift people out of poverty. When you think about it that way, then business is not separate from development policy.

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

You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.

You must not embark on programs to curb economic growth without placing a priority on maintaining income, so that the poorest people won’t simply be further depressed in their condition but will have a share, and be able to live decently.

We don't want to saw off the first rung of the economic ladder.

The state does not possess trade or industry. Its wealth is the wealth of the people and the people’s wealth is not possible without the spread of these sciences amongst them so that they may know the ways for acquiring wealth.