Quotes about Economic Safety

Benjamin Rush

The men of middling property and poor men can never be safe in a mixed representation with the men of over-grown property.

Worry about the disproportional power of the rich is not a modern concern, but was a concern from the very beginning of the nation. There was a belief that if there were a legislative body representing the entire population the rich would tend to dominate it. The solution that England had found was a bicameral Parliament—a House of Lords representing the wealthy and the powerful and the House of Commons, representing the bulk of the people. America followed suit but never did have the class distinction of England.

Paul A. Volcker

People tend to buy dollars when there is a political disturbance elsewhere in the world.

Dave Obey

Democracy must knock the rough edges off capitalism so that capitalism is safe for everyone and not just the big boys.

Elizabeth Warren

Going to college and finding a good job no longer guarantee economic safety.

Gregory Coler

When catastrophic illness wipes out a middle class family's income, they come to the government for help and they come in a hurry.

Isaac Asimov

No one can possibly have lived through the Great Depression without being scarred by it. No amount of experience since the depression can convince someone who has lived through it that the world is safe economically.

Prestonia Mann Martin

The Plan provides economic safety while at the same time retaining a huge measure of economic liberty. The problem has been how to attain safety without losing freedom. A solution would appear to lie in comparatively simple compromise between socialism and individualism by applying the one to Necessaries and the other to Luxuries.

She was proposing s radically different pattern of work and economic structure--one of the few really original ideas. All Americans between 18-26 years of age would serve the nation and be assigned to producing and providing the necessities of life for all of society.—Food, Shelter, Health Care etc, See Quotation 644625 for more details,

Elaine Chao

There should be an immediate moratorium on federal regulations that endanger jobs.

Jeff Bingaman

Social Security is not a retirement savings plan; it is a social insurance program. It's a contract that says, as a society, we will look out for you and your family when you can no longer work.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

No free people can for long cling to any privilege or enjoy any safety in economic solitude.

Jim Rohn

For economic safety for the future, you must have multiple skills and languages. Success is basically being the best that you can be.

Conner Eldridge

We must also recognize that the American Dream includes being able to provide and care for your family without fear of losing your job in the process.

Ted Deutch

Social Security is the only thing most Americans can count on to keep them out of poverty during retirement.

Benjamin Walker

The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it, whether it's on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?

Economic Safety Quotes