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Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long…

— Fareed Zakaria

Americans are very smart about the things they care about, and ignorant about the things they don't.

— Jonah Goldberg

The U.S. has some of the most significant income inequality in the developed world, yet people seem routinely to underestimate that fact.

— Maria Konnikova

Half of Americans look at the other half and say, they're too lazy or they're not willing to get up and go to school.…

— Todd G. Buchholz

Americans like to get rich fast. That this means we go broke fast, too, is something that we have become very good at forgetting.…

— Jill Lepore

Most Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness, and futility in which many other Americans live...They won't become involved in economic or…

— Shirley Chisholm

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Americans are hard working, innovative, proud people who want bad government policies and high taxes to get out of the way so they can…

— Tim Walberg

I think Americans are so poor it's pitiful, because you don't understand the natural world at all.

— Bill Mollison

The standard of living of the average American has to decline.

— Paul Volcker

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth.

— Jonathan Ames