Joseph P. Kennedy III Quotes

We know that in our free market economy some will prosper more than others. What we don't accept is the idea that some folks won't even get a chance.

The ability to take advantage of freedom and democracy is proportional to the size of your bank account.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

Preventing poverty beats curing it.

The paramount question of the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. The crying-out demand of today is for a circle of principles that shall forever make it impossible for one man to control another by controlling the means of his existence.

A universal voucher program would change the face of poverty in this country.

Poverty is not just about income: it's about aspiration. It's not just about giving people a couple of extra pounds a week, welcome though that is.

Hispanics don't want more programs to make them comfortable in their poverty. What Hispanics really want is more opportunity: the freedom to work, leave poverty behind, and rise into the ranks of the middle class and beyond.

We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves.

This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit.

We don't need to solve the problem of the rich-poor gap. We need to solve the problem of common prosperity.

A rising tide doesn't raise people who don't have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We have to give them the basic infrastructure to rise with the tide.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

If we cannot provide excellent educational opportunities to all children, safe communities, quality health coverage, or robust and fair avenues towards wealth creation, then our nation will increasingly be in peril.

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

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.

You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology, you can't fulfill your dreams.

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.

In America, the problems of poverty and low income, particularly for minorities, are disproportionately focused in the inner cities. Shining a spotlight on the businesses growing in these communities is proof that any community has the potential for entrepreneurship.

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

I don't get up in the morning and think my mission is to end Britain. I do get up in the morning and think that my mission is to end poverty.

Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you are not rich, blame yourself!

What many economists fail to understand is that poor people are no less concerned about improving their lot and that of their children than rich people are.