The economic owning class is always the political ruling…

My hope is that we would begin to have a dialogue in this country about the importance of civility. We can have strong differences,…

— Tom Brokaw

There is not a more dangerous experiment than to place property in the hands of one class, and political power in those of another...…

— Daniel Webster

The masses go into a revolution not with a prepared plan of social reconstruction, but with a sharp feeling that they cannot endure the…

— Leon Trotsky

David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage…

— Bill Moyers

“. . . the press and the pulpit have in every age and every nation been on the side of the exploiting class and the ruling class.”

— Eugene V. Debs

We want a system in which the worker shall get what he produces and the capitalist shall produce what he gets.

— Eugene V. Debs

Because you look at it, you know, and there's basically one set of rules that protect that industrial ruling class. That's what the governments…

— John Trudell

But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens.…

— John Marshall Harlan

The ruling class doesn't care about public safety. Having made it very difficult for States and localities to police themselves, having left ordinary citizens…

— Malcolm Wallop

Chuck Schumer is the face of the ruling class.

— Wendy Long

I am running to fix the economy, restore the constitutional system of checks and balances and to end this game of crony capitalism by…

— Dave Brat

“The ultimate goal of the political elite is to privatize the air. So as not to destroy their own edifice of democratic compassion they…

— Dean Cavanagh

Your ruling class don't care about what happens to you. What seems like some enormous upset in your community is undetectable from a helicopter…

— Frankie Boyle

Consequently, citizen legislators, rotating back to their communities after a short period of public service—considered an indispensable and routine characteristic and design of representative…

— Anonymous

The structure of the Swiss ruling class is rock-hard, and unchanged since the time of Napoleon. They sit on their mountains and lecture the…

— Jean Ziegler