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If in a country, most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, then this country can hardly witness harmony and stability.

There is no reason why a nation as rich as ours should be blighted by poverty, disease, and illiteracy.

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 United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.

This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population.

There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don't contribute to the growth of their countries.

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

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.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.