Billionaire Quotes - Page 9

• What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we can't take care of the elderly and the children.

  Bernie Sanders

  Children, Elderly, Giving

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• When your party is controlled by a billionaire rootless international financier who expresses 'no sense of guilt' for collaborating with the Nazis, you might want to ease up on lecturing the rest of us about the evil rich.

  Ann Coulter

  Party, Evil, Guilt

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• I got in before SoHo was SoHo. It was just Little Italy when I was in there. It's still off the touristy track. It's just away from the Saturday action, the crowds and everything. It's too expensive. It's insane. You've got to be a billionaire to live on Manhattan now.

  Joni Mitchell

  Track, Insane, Manhattan

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• Democracy is one person, one vote and a full discussion of the issues that affect us. Oligarchy is billionaires buying elections, voter suppression and a concentrated corporate media determining what we see, hear and read.

  Bernie Sanders

  Media, Issues, Democracy

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• I don't think Warren Buffett should be the treasurer or whatever. Warren Buffett's nuts! Just because he's a freaking billionaire doesn't mean he has common sense.

  Stephen Baldwin

  Mean, Thinking, Nuts

  "Stephen Baldwin: 'McCain can bring change'". Interview with Sarika Dani, www.today.com. October 24, 2008.

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• What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who's divorced really have of becoming president?

  Michael Bloomberg

  Feet, President, Doe

  "Bloomberg’s Day" by Micah Sifry, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2007.

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• Michael Bloomberg is a sensible guy. He's just privileged. He's a goddamn billionaire, and he or his family members have never had to deal with anything as remotely degrading as stop and frisk. So he has no point of reference.

  Talib Kweli

  Guy, Sensible, Degrading

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• Introverts listen better, they assess risks more carefully, they can be wiser managers. It's not for nothing that the Silicon Valley billionaires are so often the retiring types.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Retirement, Risk, Valleys

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• I just love it when people say I can't do something. There's nothing that makes me feel better, because all my life people have said I wasn't going to make it.

  Ted Turner

  Motivational, Life Lesson, People

  "Ted Turner Speaks: Insights from the World's Greatest Maverick".

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• No matter what your political persuasion, you can find a guide that makes it quick, easy and painless to exercise your right to vote. Wanna know what a certain proposition put forth by a cadre of undisclosed billionaires which cuts funding for public education, arts and infrastructure means? Use the voting guide!

  Steven Weber

  Art, Mean, Exercise

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Regardless of the overall state of the economy, there is now a large enough elite made up of new multi-millionaires and billionaires for Wall Street to see the group as "superconsumers," able to carry consumer demand all on their own.

  Naomi Klein

  Wall, Groups, Demand

  Naomi Klein (2010). “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism”, p.496, Macmillan

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• A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom and morality and humanity.

  Michael Moore

  Running, Government, Humanity

  "Michael Moore Wisconsin Speech: America Is Not Broke" by Michael Moore, www.thedailybeast.com. March 7, 2011.

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• It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace activists who fund the mass-murdering drug cartels and perpetuate crushing poverty in dirt-poor banana republics. It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Crush, Girl, Running

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• Buffett does enjoy being a billionaire, but in offbeat ways. As he put it, though money cannot change your health or how many people love you, it lets you be in 'more interesting environments.

  Roger Lowenstein

  Love You, People, Interesting

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• Professionalism in tennis ... only resulted in making billionaires out of rude children, producing an onslaught of moody defectors, and a lot of guys with hair that looks as if bats slept in it... Meanwhile, my head swims with the thought that I have watched tennis progress from Don Budge and Alice Marble to Farrah Fawcett becoming John McEnroe's mother-in-law.

  Dan Jenkins

  Mother, Children, Hair

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• The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at the table. If you speak, you have a chance to persuade others. A billionaire and a minimum wage earner have the same power at the ballot box.

  Christine Pelosi

  Lying, Democracy, Minimum Wage

  "When Corporate Speech Jeopardizes Equality We Can’t Just “Shut It Off” — Women Must Pursue Citizens United Reform" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2012.

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• During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period of hardship for billionaires.

  Thomas Frank

  Average, People, Entering

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• If in fact the rates go up because the president refuses to budge then he will have to answer for that next year when our economy is not growing. When, unfortunately, people lose their jobs who work at a dental clinic as a medical billing specialist, or the paralegal at a law firm loses their job, or the courier at the law firm loses a job, these are not millionaires and billionaires.

  Marco Rubio

  Jobs, Years, Law

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Country, Government, Upset

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• The movers and shakers on our planet, aren't the billionaires and generals, they are the incredible numbers of people around the world filled with love for neighbor and for the earth who are resisting, remaking, restoring, renewing and revitalising.

  Bill McKibben

  Numbers, People, World

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• The greed of the billionaire class has got to end and we are going to end it for them.

  Bernie Sanders

  Class, Greed, Ends

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• Trickle down economics is a fraud. Giving tax breaks to the rich and large corporations does not create jobs. It simply makes the rich richer, enlarges the deficit and increases income and wealth inequality. We need economic policies which benefit working families, not the billionaire class.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Class, Giving

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• If you know how rich you are, you are not a billionaire.

  Mikhail Prokhorov

  Rich, Ifs, Know How

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• Donald Trump was, you know, obviously a very important businessman, billionaire, he was a reality show star and I think that he has had more success running for president than probably even he imagined.

  Joy-Ann Reid

  Running, Stars, Reality

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I know a lot of people in the city, at all levels, horizontally and vertically - and that to me is a privilege, to me as a person but also a writer. I've dined with billionaires, and I play soccer with busboys.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Soccer, Play, Cities

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.

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