“I think if the plan is to count on the benevolence and wisdom and courage of billionaires, that’s a bad plan.” — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
I know of at least two black women who are billionaires: Sheila Johnson, who co-founded BET, and Oprah Winfrey. And I know… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
The annual 'Forbes' Billionaires List speaks volumes about the movement and concentration of wealth across industries and geographies. — David Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
You know what isn't class warfare? Progressive taxation, as in, say, expecting billionaires to pay at least as much in taxes as… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
Look around. Oil companies guzzle down the billions in profits. Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries, and Wall Street… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
If your parents are billionaires, that might actually be an obstacle to your own happiness and self-development. If you go to Oxford… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
What has become clear to many Americans is that the electoral system is bankrupt. As the political process becomes more privatized, outsourced,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
If you raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires, you'll do nothing to address the debt and the deficit. And the thing you… — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country?… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
“You will even read about an insurance company owned by one of America’s most admired billionaires that asked a paralyzed man to… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
I know a lot of people in the city, at all levels, horizontally and vertically - and that to me is a… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The mistake the apartheid government made was they gave the black people nothing, so they had nothing to lose. But now a… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
At least in the United States, most economic resentment is not directed toward billionaires or high-roller financiers - not even corrupt ones.… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Regardless of the overall state of the economy, there is now a large enough elite made up of new multi-millionaires and billionaires… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“Even if refugees, undocumented immigrants, and legal immigrants are not all potential billionaires, that is no reason to exclude them. Even if… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their… — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
I don't think that we should have billionaires because, frankly, it is so much money in a moment of such inequality, and… — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
All those predictions about how much economic growth will be created by this, all of those new jobs, would be created by… — Anthony Weiner Copy Share Image
The left's mission isn't simply to grant every citizen the basic means of survival, but comfort and prosperity, too, through collective means.… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
We must reign in overspending by ridding government of outmoded programs, making Big Oil pay their fair share, repealing massive tax breaks… — Paul Tonko Copy Share Image
Professionalism in tennis ... only resulted in making billionaires out of rude children, producing an onslaught of moody defectors, and a lot… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
We came from where people don't look like they have money anyway. We came up in an era where the dudes who… — Jadakiss Copy Share Image
I agreed with everything he was saying when he ran for president. I was listening to what he said. I go, this… — Jon Lovitz Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has shown no interest in working toward increasing the minimum wage, no interest in doing anything but immigrant baiting, no… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
