The struggle of ordinary people for a decent living, for…

[Conservatism:] Our revolutionary message... is that a self-disciplined people can create a political community in which an ordered liberty will promote both economic prosperity…

— Irving Kristol

The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality;…

— Herbert Croly

Out of politics comes more uproar than progress. It is indeed surprising how little, comparatively, this noisy department of human affairs contributes to the…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Reagan's story of freedom superficially alludes to the Founding Fathers, but its substance comes from the Gilded Age, devised by apologists for the robber…

— Bill Moyers

Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.

— Bill Moyers

I've always thought the American eagle needed a left wing and a right wing. The right wing would see to it that economic interests…

— Bill Moyers

“Inequalities are inevitable under capitalism, but no other advanced economy has such a hyperconcentration of wealth. In fact, as we’ve seen, America looks far…

— Hedrick Smith

If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream really is…

— William J. Clinton

What can we do to create shared prosperity? The answer is not to try to slow down technology. Instead of racing against the machine,…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a…

— William J. Clinton

It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, for the few, and to replace it…

— Hillary Clinton

To get back to the kind of shared prosperity and upward mobility we once considered normal will require another era of fundamental reform, of…

— Robert Reich

When I was president, I worked hard to give you more peace and shared prosperity, to give you an America where nobody is invisible…

— William J. Clinton

Now it is unambiguously clear that trickle-down economics does not work. But what does that mean? That means we have to structure our economic…

— Joseph Stiglitz

There is no example on the planet of a successful economy with broadly shared prosperity and a shrinking, weak government.

— William J. Clinton