Class Quote by Bill Moyers

Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government.

— George Will

Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

— Michael Pare

You have six of the ten wealthiest counties in America surround Washington, D.C., and the poor and middle class are getting squeezed while people…

— Mike Lee

“what it is: an oligarchy,” declared McKinnon. “The system is controlled by a handful of ultra-wealthy people, most of whom got rich from the…

— Jane Mayer

History has shown us many times that if the state repressively forces the redistribution of wealth and social justice, it becomes dangerous both for…

— Rohini Nilekani

The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.

— Karl Kautsky

“There are few problems in the world that economic prosperity cannot help solve. Yet the engines of that prosperity are under fierce attack. The…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

— Noam Chomsky

The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of…

— Robert Payne

Since the 1980s, we've been living in this era, really, of corporate rule, based on this idea that the role of government is to…

— Naomi Klein

It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt