Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of…

It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.

— Jock Sturges

Large government is inevitably inefficient, but so, too, is large private enterprise.

— Richard Cohen

Government is inevitably going to play a very significant role in infrastructure, and in a country with a federal system where vibrancy and economic…

— Norman Ornstein

“This is a relatively recent phenomenon, this notion that government inevitably leads to dependency. Look, there were periods of time in our history when…

— David Blum

Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauropod dinosaur, government has a primitive nervous system: The fact of an injury…

— George Will

Moving to a cooperatively organized enterprise is one of the best ways to really do something about unequal distribution of wealth.

— Richard D. Wolff

In the ideal world, philanthropy should be redundant or at least it should be at the edges, as innovation or risk capital. But it's…

— Rohini Nilekani

In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked and accelerating…

— Pico Iyer

The real scientific study of the distribution of wealth has, we must confess, scarcely begun. The conventional academic study of the so-called theory of…

— Irving Fisher

As mass production has to be accompanied by mass consumption, mass consumption, in turn, implies a distribution of wealth ... to provide men with…

— Marriner Stoddard Eccles

The distribution of wealth is even more unequal than that of income. ...The wealthiest 5% of American households held 54% of all wealth reported…

— Janet Yellen

If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Probably no country has ever had as large a shift in the distribution of wealth [as what we've seen in the U.S. in the…

— Lester Thurow

Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.

— Thomas Piketty

We must work together to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth, opportunity and power in our society.

— Nelson Mandela