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If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.

Market forces and capitalism by themselves aren't sufficient to ensure the common good and to limit the concentration of wealth at levels that are compatible with democratic ideals.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

It is much harder for economies to prosper if they cannot sell to, buy from, invest with, and even transit their neighbors. Landlocked countries with failed or failing neighbors can lose access to the world economy.

Every country has rich people. But only a few places have achieved a vibrant and stable middle class. And in the history of the world, none has been more vibrant and more stable than the American middle class.

The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people. There has been a tremendous concentration of donor interest in countries that are seen as particularly fragile - but it becomes harder to mobilise money for sub-Saharan, plain poor countries.

Inequalities of wealth lead to a dispersion in wealth for all.