Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think ’we’re all in this together’ is a better philosophy than ’you’re on your own.’

Clinton contrasts two governing philosophies by framing Democratic economic policy as middle-class–centered, mobility-oriented, and future-focused. The quote argues that prosperity is strongest when the middle class is robust and when people born into poverty have credible pathways upward—an implicit defense of public investment in education, training, and opportunity. He also stresses a pragmatic partnership between business and government, rejecting the idea that markets alone reliably produce broadly shared gains. The closing antithesis—“we’re all in this together” versus “you’re on your own”—casts the debate as moral as well as economic: solidarity and shared responsibility versus individualism and minimal public obligation.