Bottom Quote by Desmond Tutu

The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.

— Unita Blackwell

The United States is the richest and also the most unequal country in the world.

— Alissa Quart

So here is the Great Society. It's the time - and it's going to be soon - when nobody in this country is poor.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

We live in a country where a small number of people have incredible wealth and power. America has more income and wealth inequality than…

— Bernie Sanders

Every country has rich people. But only a few places have achieved a vibrant and stable middle class. And in the history of the…

— Marco Rubio

In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that…

— P. J. O'Rourke

In the United States today we have the most unequal wealth and income distribution of any major country on earth - worse than at…

— Bernie Sanders

“The United States, which idealized itself as a classless society in which everyone had the opportunity to get ahead, had in fact fallen behind…

— Jane Mayer

Most poor people live in the poorest countries.

— Bill Gates

In America there are none poor, and none even that can be called peasants. Each citizen has some property, and all citizens have the…

— Marquis de Lafayette

While a few poor countries are catching up with the rich world, the differences between the richest and poorest individuals around the globe are…

— Zygmunt Bauman

For most of history, almost everyone was poor. Power and wealth belonged to only a few.

— Marco Rubio