Nestor Kirchner Quotes

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

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.

Well, as you know, there are many things in life that are not fair, that wealthy people can afford and poor people can’t. But I don’t believe that the federal government should take action to try to make these opportunities exactly equal, when there is a moral factor involved.

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

We must work towards solutions that make housing, transportation, the workforce, and higher education more equitable.

I've often said that far more sensible than a 'make poverty history' campaign would be a 'make wealth history' campaign. It is, after all, the wealthy people who do all the damage. The less money you earn, the fewer resources you use up.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

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

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

There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairness of an economy that excludes so many from our collective wealth, and the changes necessary to build a more inclusive and generous Canada. I believe in you.

In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.

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

The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.

Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious?

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.

One of the fundamental questions of today's world is undoubtedly the question of equitable globalisation.

I have dedicated my political career to bringing fairness to America's economic system and to our work force, regardless of what people look like or where they may worship.

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

All over the globe the U.S. is fighting to protect and develop at least a minority who consume what the U.S. majority can afford.

We have got to put a human face on the global economy.

A strong economy is perfectly consistent with concern for equity and economic justice.

establish and maintain equal opportunity and industrial justice.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

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

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.