Wealthiest Quotes
83 quotes by 70 authors
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The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.
— Richard Neal
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We can go back to economic plans that are only designed to benefit the wealthiest among us, like Mitt Romney. Or we can keep moving…
— Bev Perdue
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Friends, I'm angry about what's happening in politics today! Why is it wrong to ask the wealthiest people and most profitable corporations to pay their…
— Richard Trumka
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Dozens of America's wealthiest taxpayers - including hedge fund legend Michael Steinhardt, super trial lawyer Guy Saperstein, and Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's fame…
— Joe Conason
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The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush's wealthiest donors. But hardworking Americans will…
— Howard Dean
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If you look around the world, the countries with the best environmental practices are the wealthiest. There's a reason for that. If you're worried about…
— John S. Watson
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America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Jesus never called the poor 'lazy,' fought for tax cuts for the wealthiest Nazarenes or asked a leper for a copay.
— John Fugelsang
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The wealthiest Americans often live as though they and their children had nothing to gain from investments in education, infrastructure, clean-energy, and scientific research.
— Sam Harris
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The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower…
— Jonathan Kozol
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A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest…
— Thurgood Marshall
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I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000…
— Barack Obama
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In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike…
— Barack Obama
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Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is…
— Camille Paglia
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I am the wealthiest man, not just in Europe, but in the whole world. I collect emotions. I am wealthy in that the people of…
— Vladimir Putin
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All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is…
— Desmond Tutu
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Pleasure without God, without the sacred boundaries, will actually leave you emptier than before. And this is biblical truth, this is experiential truth. The loneliest…
— Ravi Zacharias
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The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and…
— Fidel Castro
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America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.... It is in fact…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Most Bolton students were scions of the city's wealthiest families. My crewe stuck out like hooker at church. We werent part of their pampered, priveliged…
— Kathy Reichs
Who Wrote These Wealthiest Quotes
70 authors contributed a total of 83 Wealthiest Quotes, led by these top contributors: