Meghan McCain Quotes

Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers, aims to force a reconsideration of the way the nation does business and offers hope to those of us who previously felt alone in our belief that the current economic system is broken.

Barack Obama is Occupy Wall Street. Barrack Obama is plugged into that world. That's what he believes.

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.

I love being down at Occupy Wall Street. The sincerity, the youth involvement, the desire for better, is palpable and moving. There is true caring, sharing, and refreshingly naive hope.

We do not yet have a politics that is equal to the economics around us.

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

We must ensure the economy really works for all, to address unconscionable wealth and income disparities that allow access to opportunity for some over others.

The Occupy Wall Street movement, in general, by putting this idea out there that the one percent is leeching off the 99 percent, is making a new discussion, making people figure out how to withhold their labor and come and put their issues on the table with the ruling class all over the country and all over the world.

As a society, we need to refocus on creating an economy that works for everyone. I believe the business community is in the best position to lead the way.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

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

Unlike the Tea Party, who see themselves as the customers of government, people in the Occupy Wall Street movement understand that we are the government. Stated most simply, we are trying to run a 21st-century society on a 13th-century economic operating system. It just doesn't work.

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

Occupy Wall Street is a real movement.

I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day, sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go .

I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. I think that is a good thing and that people need to stand up, voice their opinions, and be heard.

I have watched Occupy Wall Street mostly from the sidelines.

Remove poverty from politics.

Fair Shares for All, is Labour's Call

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

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

There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.

Destroy poverty, that source of crime, by assuring to each the satisfaction of all needs! And how difficult is this to achieve?

It's not class warfare to talk about fairness.

Unless you’re at the very top, you need a more equitable economy.