Ronald Reagan Quotes

We need to have the social investments by which to quote unquote distribute some of that wealth.

My premise is not to tax to destroy the wealth of the wealthy; it's to increase the wealth of the bottom and the middle class.

I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

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

The distribution of wealth is just as important as its creation.

The economy must provide justice as well as prosperity.

You are not going to lift everybody out of poverty through the kindness of wealthy people.

I try to deal with the poverty gap - to do policies for all of us rather than only for the wealthy.

You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.

Socialists will often talk as if some form of superbly equalized destitution were preferable to "maldistributed" plenty. A national income that is rapidly growing in absolute terms for practically everyone will be deplored because it is making the rich richer.

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

Haiti's economy cannot be built by and benefit just a privileged few. It must be built by and benefit all Haitians.

People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.

Pope Francis emphatically does not buy the argument that poverty can be alleviated by the 'trickle down' effects of wealth creation. He is deaf to arguments that the global economy has brought a billion people out of poverty. He is convinced, in short, that the best and only way to expel poverty is fairer distribution of the world's goods.

Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.

No one should be richer than a ten millionaire and no one should be without a home.

Abolish Poverty

In a good society, those in the middle and at the bottom ought to benefit significantly from economic growth. When the country prospers, everybody should prosper.

How do we make sure that rising tides lift all boats and not just the yachts?

There's enough wealth in the world that no one should go without.

Economic growth is very important, but it is not the only thing, and it must be accompanied by sharing with those who are left behind, through effective social services and provision.

The modern welfare state, highly touted as soaking the rich to subsidize the poor, does no such thing. In fact, soaking the rich would have disastrous effects, not just for the rich but for the poor and middle classes themselves. For it is the rich who provide a proportionately greater amount of saving, investment capital, entrepreneurial foresight, and financing of technological innovation that has brought the Unites States to by far the highest standard of living - for the mass of the people - of any country in history.

Imagine what would happen if the government were to take the wealth of 200,000 of India's richest people and redistribute it amongst 2 million of India's poorest? We would hear a lot about socialist appropriation and the death of democracy. Why should taking from the rich be called appropriation and taking from the poor be called development?

The measure of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, but whether, as Franklin Roosevelt said, we provide enough for those who have too little.