Gore Vidal, the American writer, once described the American economic system as 'free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich'.… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
The difference between the very wealthy and the working poor has grown. We raise that minimum wage and we move forward with… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
To say that past managements of Citigroup were poor would be a kindness. — Steve Eisman Copy Share Image
It is comparatively a faint and reflected beauty that is admired, not an essential and intrinsic one. It is because the old… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Statistics prove that teenage Internet gambling is the fastest growing addiction of the day,akin to drug and alcohol abuse in the 1930s,… — David Robertson Copy Share Image
People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
In a perfect world what poor countries at the lowest rungs of economic development need is not a multi-party democracy, but in… — Dambisa Moyo Copy Share Image
They say you never grow poor taking profits. No, you don't. But neither do you grow rich taking a four-point profit in… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor, that's what the Statue of Bigotry says. Your poor huddled masses, let's just club… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Reagan's approach will achieve one of the basic goals of the conservative: Things remain basically the same. The rich stay rich and… — Mike Royko Copy Share Image
As long as there's anybody that's poor or middle class, there will not be satisfaction that there are rich people. Not 'til… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it? — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
My poor sight gives me an advantage. I can't see the people in the audience who are scratching their heads while I… — Maria Callas Copy Share Image
One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
Every living soul among the Latter-day Saints that fasts two meals once a month will be benefited spiritually and be built up… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges it, usually… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do… — Stephen Gaghan Copy Share Image
ITC works to help firms in poor countries become more competitive and overcome the barriers that are keeping their goods and services… — Arancha Gonzalez Copy Share Image
The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We cannot better assure our eternal happiness than by living and dying in the service of the poor, in the arms of… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Proverbs 31:26 She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue. — Surgeo Bell Copy Share Image
I went to see Chris Rock on Saturday night here in Atlanta, and he made a statement in his comedy. He said,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Now my poor hometown is being castigated as the center of an IRS scandal. Humble workers at the Cincinnati office targeted Tea… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in.… — Iman Abdulmajid Copy Share Image
Haggard, I would not be you for all the world," he declared. "You have let your doom in by the front door,… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I had a pretty poor self-image for a long time. I broke into acting as a model in New York. I was… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
