"The only thing that can cure poverty is wealth... [Y]ou might think that the left would be as obsessed with the creation of wealth as they are with the redistribution of wealth. But you would be wrong... While the creation of wealth may be more effective for enabling millions of people to rise out of poverty, it provides no special role for the political left, no puffed up importance, no moral superiority, no power for them to wield over others... Things that work for millions of people offer little to the left, and ultimately the left is about the left, not about the people they claim to want to lift out of poverty." —Thomas Sowell