Ron Kind Quotes

My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.

We act like a zero-sum society, when in reality there is a lot of non zero-sum fat to be skimmed off to everyone's mutual advantage.

The incorrect supposition that we live in a world of scarce resources has done more than preclude most individuals from achieving economic success. Over the centuries, this zero-sum-game view of the world has been responsible for wars, revolutions, political strategies, and human suffering of unfathomable proportions.

I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.

Equality and prosperity shouldn't be seen as enemies of each other, but as partners. One reinforces the other.

This Government intends no injury to honest business. The processes we follow in seeking social justice do not, in adding to general prosperity, take from one and give to another. In this modern world, the spreading out of opportunity ought not to consist of robbing Peter to pay Paul. In other words, we are concerned with more than mere subtraction and addition. We are concerned with multiplication also -- multiplication of wealth through cooperative action, wealth in which all can share.

I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade of each becomes more valuable to the other.

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

We will revive the emergency employment program established by former President Corazon Aquino. This will provide jobs for local communities and will help in the development of their and our economy.

Since entering the new century, China and Africa have seized the historic opportunities presented by the deepening of globalization, worked together and helped each other to achieve a win-win outcome.

Some argue shareholder capitalism has proven more efficient. It has moved economic resources to where they're most productive, and thereby enabled the economy to grow faster.

I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.

People should give up the old concepts of 'you lose. I win', or zero-sum game, and establish a new concept of peaceful development and win-win cooperation. If China develops well, it will benefit the whole world and benefit the United States. If the United States develops well, it will also benefit the world and China.

The only color of freedom in America is green.

The test of the rightfulness of our decisions must be whether we have sustained and advanced ... prosperity.

An economically successful Africa is not only in the interest of the Africans but also is in the interest of the United States as well.

We have to educate our way to a better economy.

We live in an interdependent world. We depend on one another for prosperity.

Men are seldom more innocently employed than when they are making money.

The economy must provide justice as well as prosperity.

Growth and prosperity. These are the blocks with which we must build our welfare society.

Most actions do not aim at anybody’s defeat or loss. They aim at an improvement in conditions.

It is enlightened selfishness to build up the ability of other nations to a higher standard of living. We thus produce wider markets for ourselves as well as the rest of the world

It is past time to acknowledge that economic growth … is good, and that what the world needs is more of it.

Economic cooperation makes the American people and others around the world more prosperous and secure.