Abandon Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

— P. Chidambaram

We survived the 1980's. Back then, the economic program was called 'trickle down.' That actually meant they were pissing on you. How the whole…

— Bill Maher

Ronald Reagan, and before him, Richard Nixon, and before Nixon, a slew of conservative politicians going back through American history, have played to the…

— Sasha Abramsky

In short, the elimination of the financial legacy of Reaganomics could force the United States to make some exceptionally difficult choices indeed.

— Robert Gilpin

“Nothing is simpler than to make good poverty of ideas by founding a system, and even a good idea has little value when enunciated…

— Oswald Spengler

“The focus on the ‘problems’ of the rich was more profitable and less distressing than trying to tackle the insurmountable troubles of the poor.…

— Gabrielle Palmer

The gap between the rich and the poor cannot keep growing without nothing being done about it.

— Kofi Annan

“But the lesson of those years is that the ruling class can't be relied upon to redistribute wealth and power.”

— Selina Todd

Poverty is abandonment. We have abandoned the poor.

— Tony Meloto

The doctrine of population has been conspicuously absent, not because I doubt in the least its truth and vast importance, but because it forms…

— Thomas Malthus

The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.

— William Cowper

The question many have in the region is how not to squander the wealth like they did in the 1970s.

— Charles Salvador