Bill Clinton Quotes

Build a global economy that will lift up—and not drag down—our people and all the people of the world.

Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.

Africa has no time to lose. The global economy is fast leaving our continent behind.

Globalization can be shaped to ensure that people matter.

We must create a kind of globalization that works for everyone... and not just for a few.

We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.

The global economy should not be supported by wage earners. They have to be able to build a future like any other human being.

That's what we were doing for the last twenty years, telling everybody to adopt a raw capitalism with no safety nets, no redistributive mechanisms…. I think we have to find ways to spread the benefits of global markets beyond just the small group of market-dominant minorities and foreign investors. We need to find ways to redistribute the wealth, whether it's property title and giving poor people property, land reform.... Redistributive mechanisms are tough to have if you have so much corruption.

it must be right to suggest that all countries should use their resources so as to advance the right to development for their people in an equitable manner and that all countries should cooperate for the mutual achievement of the right to development. The alternative to such a policy framework is a Darwinian world of market-oriented capitalism with no social or human rights safety nets. How can developing countries survive in such a world?

There is no single sustainable model for national success. … the American model, which has indeed been successful, is not available to others, because our success depends greatly on our dominant position at the center of the global capitalist system, and we are not willing to yield it.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of.

Engineers in the developed world should be arguing not for protectionism but for trade agreements that seek to establish rules that result in a real rise in living standards. This will ensure that outsourcing is a positive force in the developing nation's economy and not an exploitative one.

We should change the current economic system dominated by big business groups to a one where small and medium-sized enterprises develop together.

Globalization doesn't have to be a bad thing as long as government provides us all with the tools to cope in a changing world.

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

I believe there is no other way to create decent livelihoods for the world's poorest people than to connect them to global markets as producers, and on fair terms.

If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

All peoples should be assured of equitable access to markets and to essential raw materials.

The destiny of world civilization depends on providing a decent standard of living for all mankind …. The first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

Prohibiting Poverty

Abolish Poverty

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.

This globalization is lifting up hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. The Left needs to see that.