Michael Novak Quotes

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

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

Educated and productive young people are needed to help lift their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world.

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

If Jeff Bezos and I had started Amazon.com in a poverty-stricken corner of Africa, there would have been no job creation because there would be no people to buy the stuff from Amazon.com. The difference here is the American middle class, which is by every measure the most extraordinary economic achievement in the history of the world.

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

When I was a kid in junior high, I had an assignment to discuss how to rescue poor people in India. I remember my teacher at the time considered it an impossible problem. Now, we're not talking that way anymore. We're sure not talking about that for China. They're rescuing themselves thanks to globalization.

God wants us to show compassion and understanding toward the unemployed or the poor not because they are poor, but because poor people, with help from those who are already successful, can become rich. And when the poor become rich, all will benefit, because in our modern economy new unemployment is the first sign of economic growth.

We must create economic opportunity, build a culture of entrepreneurship, get people to take responsibility for improving their lives, rather than putting them in a position where they sit back in their poverty and blame others for it.

The American middle class used to be envy of the world. It was a byproduct of economic freedom. We had a very dynamic free-market economy and limited government. People were out there pursuing their own self-interest and creating employment opportunities.

A prerequisite to the inclusive prosperity that will increase equality and reduce poverty is growth. This requires an innovative economy in which productive businesses, the state and citizens work together to create wealth and ensure that globalisation works for many more people.

Look at the growing middle class in India. Small businesses are not just a source of jobs and prosperity: they are the driving force of social justice too.

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.

It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class.

One of my key issues is economic empowerment.

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

We have proven that you can actually move strong, progressive policies, grow the economy, and improve the human condition.

The UPA's strategy of 'inclusive growth' remains the foundational pillar of economically, politically, and socially sustainable development.

I believe that capitalism is the one thing in this world that's brought people out of poverty.

Empowering women with greater income opportunities will lift societies at a much faster rate.

I think that education is a pathway out of poverty for many people. It was for our family.

Education is the antidote to poverty.

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

Wealth is only ever actually created from the bottom-up, with free people employing their distinctly human creativity and finding ways to serve and employ others.

Federal policies must understand the linkages between economic growth, social mobility, and a strong middle class.