Economic Mobility Quotes

#1. For too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation.

Mario Cuomo

#2. A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility.

Nicholas Kristof

#3. India's rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.

Steven Rattner

#4. Historically speaking, religious and conservative groups always wanted the control over the private sphere that impacts women most, as reflected by family law and women's access to resources and mobility. And often secular groups traded this for economic incentives and trade.

Zainab Salbi

#5. The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one.

Benjamin Franklin

#6. Kenya is a mercurial character. I feel the country has a presence that can turn on its people in a very violent way.

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

#7. Free market capitalism is far more than economic theory. It is the engine of social mobility-the highway to the American Dream.

George W. Bush

#8. Americans are better off in a dynamic, free-enterprise-based economy that fosters economic growth, opportunity and upward mobility instead of a stagnant, government-directed economy that stifles job creation and fosters government dependency.

Paul Ryan

#9. Today I still feel like the most illiterate person ever to have roamed the campuses of Wellesley and Harvard, where I later transferred. I remain intimidated by all the books I haven't read, but over the years I've come to realize that being a student is a lifelong adventure.

Elisabeth Shue

#10. A lot of scripts that I was given I didn't feel were right for me, because I didn't feel anything for them - I didn't feel like I was going to change in life and start directing.

Anton Corbijn

#11. Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later comes to be regarded as obvious.

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#12. The present tax codes inhibit the mobility and formation of capital, add complexities and inequities which undermine the morale of the taxpayer, and make tax avoidance rather than market factors a prime consideration in too many economic decisions.

John F. Kennedy

#13. I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.

Victoria Principal

#14. study by the Bertelsmann Foundation concluded that in measures of economic equality, social mobility, and poverty prevention, the United States ranks twenty-seventh out of the thirty-one advanced industrial nations belonging to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Mike Lofgren

#15. Sorry, I'd love to hang out with you but this alcohol isn't going to drink itself into incoherence and liver failure

Tao Lin

#16. Men will surrender to the spirit of the age. They will say that if they had lived in our day, faith would be simple and easy. But in their day, they will say, things are complex; the Church must be brought up to date and made meaningful to the day's problems.

Anthony Of Padua

#17. We had such tremendous fun
and much agony together
for some years

Charles Bukowski

#18. In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in the tactics of guerrilla warfare, in the use of fictions, of language.

Kathy Acker

#19. We used to be so proud that our country offered far more economic opportunities than the feudal system in Great Britain, with its royal family, princesses and dukes. But social mobility in the UK is higher than in the US. Our social rift is as big as it was in the 1920s.

Robert Reich