Tony Campolo Quotes

I believe in the Democratic party, and their philosophy and what they stand for - for the poor people.

There's a wider agenda that speaks to what the Democratic Party has historically stood for, which are economic rights for those who are struggling in the middle class, concern for the poor, for economic justice for those who are marginalized in our society.

We Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think "we're all in this together" is a better philosophy than "you're on your own”.

I remember thinking Democrats and liberals were the good guys. They cared about the little guy. They cared about poor people. They cared about minorities.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.

I am still a socialist. I am a left-of-center politician. I believe that in Africa, if you see the poverty around us, you can't afford to be anything else.

We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.

Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.

I don't think they [Congress] ought to balance their budget on the backs of the poor.

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

… poor people deserve access to food, education, housing, and medical services

We used to wage war on poverty—not poor people.

It is right to be forward in the defense of the poor; no system that is not just as between rich and poor can hope to survive.

Government becomes a burden only when it functions on behalf of the poor.

A sure indicator of true religion is a concern for the poor of the earth.

Irrespective of economic theories, we will take decisions in the larger interest of the poor people.

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.

We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.

Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire their refusal to look down on the least among us, but at some level, that can become an excuse to never really look at the problem at all.

Since the Church is to be servant to the poor, it is our fault if that wealth is not channeled to help the poor in our world.

Jesus taught that we should give to the poor and support widows, but he never said that we should elect a government that would take money from our neighbor's hand and give it to the poor.

People like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have been very busy educating America about just how much socialism we have, from Social Security to Medicare to public schools to public universities, and how much we love that. The truth is that there is no pure socialist or capitalist economy on earth.