America Quote by Charles Rangel

Barack Obama destroyed the middle class. Whatever you want to say about his rhetoric, the rich got richer, but the poor got poorer, and…

— Steve Scalise

President Lyndon Johnson's administration was known for his War on Poverty. President Obama's will become notable for his War on Prosperity. We're speaking, of…

— Dick Morris

The rich did well under Obama's policies; it was the working class that got creamed. This was because the economy just wouldn't grow as…

— Stephen Moore

“From 1960 to 1970, as the New Deal expanded into the Great Society, the number of Americans in poverty declined from 40 million to…

— Ian Haney López

Yeah, remember, under the Bush administration, welfare — I mean, excuse me, poverty among African Americans and among single unmarried women, poverty was at…

— Rick Santorum

“During his first year in office, Congress did just that, passing legislation that changed the formulas governing eligibility and payouts for certain means-tested entitlements.7…

— James Forman Jr

“The Truly Disadvantaged, the most important book written about poverty in the past three decades. It was Wilson who first observed, famously, that a…

— Kathryn Edin

Poverty existed before January 20, 2008, OK? Before President Obama took office.

— Hill Harper

The President also talked at length about how well the American economy is doing. Apparently, he got his information on this topic from his…

— Jose Serrano

It wasn't simply that Clinton created the greatest prosperity in the country's history. Or that we created 22 million new jobs, more than ever…

— Sidney Blumenthal

part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not…

— Anna Quindlen

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000,…

— Mitt Romney