Democracy Quote by Joseph Befumo

“On average, the real incomes of middle-class families have grown twice as fast under Democrats as they have under Republicans, while the real incomes…

— Larry M. Bartels

“The real income reported on federal tax returns by the vast majority of Americans, the 90 percent, doubled between the end of the war and 1973.”

— David Cay Johnston

That's an important Obama accomplishment: he raised taxes back to Bill Clinton levels, and made a major dent in inequality doing so. That's certain…

— Jonathan Chait

What the Republicans have said is rather than touch one hair on the heads of the wealthiest people in our country, people who make…

— Nancy Pelosi

“Obama accused the Republicans of giving “more than $1 trillion in new tax breaks to the wealthy” and argued that it was “less about…

— Jane Mayer

“There is no measurable criterion that shows Republicans doing better than Democrats on the economy over the entire past century.”

— Scott McMurrey

I have said that for incomes over $250,000 a year, that we should go back to the rates that we had when Bill Clinton…

— Barack Obama

As riches increase and accumulate in few hands . . . the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard.

— Alexander Hamilton

“The GOP cares, over and above every other item on its political agenda, about the rich contributors who keep them in office. This is…

— Mike Lofgren

“The Republican establishment is haunted by painful memories of what happened to Old Man Bush in 1992. He peaked too early and he had…

— Hunter S. Thompson

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

The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly…

— Barney Frank