Trickle Down Quotes - Page 2

• If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Horse, Oats, Sparrows

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• Do you believe this is simply trickle-down Machiavellianism in much the same way that Communism trickled down as an aberration of its original intent?

  Larisa Alexandrovna

  Believe, Aberration, Way

  "Exclusive: Former UN weapons inspector Ritter says NeoCons 'godless parasites' feeding on the Republican Party". www.rawstory.com. March 25, 2005.

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• I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally.

  Dave Matthews

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Dave Matthews makes (and talks) history". Interview with Kareen Wynter and Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. September 20, 2012.

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• He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.

  Jack Kemp

  Fall, Niagara Falls, Niagara

  "Gore and Kemp Face Off in Vice Presidential Debate". "NBC Today Show", archives.nbclearn.com. October 10, 1996.

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• Goodness in other people and what they contribute inspire me. I love it when someone is gifted and shares it in some way so that it has a trickle-down effect.

  Renee Zellweger

  People, Inspire, Way

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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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• I don't want to see trickle down racism. I don't want to see a president of the United States saying things which change the character of the generations of Americans that are following. Presidents have an impact on the nature of our nature. And trickle down racism, trickle down bigotry, and trickle down misogyny, all these extraordinarily dangerous to the heart and character of America.

  Mitt Romney

  Heart, Character, America

  "Mitt Romney says Donald Trump will change America with 'trickle-down racism'" by Theodore Schleifer, edition.cnn.com. June 11, 2016.

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• [Donald] Trump and all the Republicans believe in the theory of trickle down economics which is a theory discredited even by the author himself David Stockton. The theory suggests that if we take care of the people at the top, if we cut taxes for the wealthy, if we make sure they are doing really well, then the investments that they make in the economy and the jobs that will create, will make everything grow and it will have a trickle down effect on the rest of us.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Jobs, Believe, Cutting

  Source: ciudadweston.com

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• I don't think all the blame lies with Wall Street. I think a lot of the blame lies with the [George W.] Bush administration. They went back to trickle-down economics. They took their eye off the mortgage market, they took their eye off the finance markets, and we ended up in a big mess.

  Hillary Clinton

  Wall, Lying, Eye

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• There's always an imbalance with actors and actresses in the industry. And I think because there are just fewer movies overall being made, it's that trickle down effect.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Movie, Thinking, Actresses

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• But can we please stop insisting that if low-wage workers earn a little bit more, unemployment will skyrocket and the economy will collapse? There is no evidence for it. The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense.

  Nick Hanauer

  Unemployment, Minimum Wage, Littles

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• It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down,' so the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that was really 'trickle down.' Supply-side is 'trickle-down' theory.

  David Stockman

  Way, Sides, Kind

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• The perfect bacon sandwich is on white bread, very soft and very thick. Sourdough with a good crust. The bacon is half way to being crispy - and there's lots of it - and enough brown sauce to trickle down your arm. You've not really enjoyed a bacon sandwich unless 10 minutes later you're still licking your wrists.

  Howard Jacobson

  White, Perfect, Arms

  "Howard Jacobson: What I've Learned" by Ben Mitchell, www.esquire.com. August 10, 2014.

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• As bad as I disagreed on stuff, I wanted to get a technical foul, but I didn't. When guys on the team see me get technical fouls, it tends to trickle down to the team. I just took it and dealt with it.

  Stephen Jackson

  Team, Guy, Stuff

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• Throughout the 1980s, we did hear too much about individual gain and the ethos of selfishness and greed. We did not hear enough about how to be a good member of a community, to define the common good and to repair the social contract. And we also found that while prosperity does not trickle down from the most powerful to the rest of us, all too often indifference and even intolerance do.

  Hillary Clinton

  Powerful, Ethos, Community

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• Emotion doesn't travel in a straight line. Like water, our feelings trickle down through cracks and crevices, seeking out the little pockets of neediness and neglect, the hairline fractures in our character usually hidden from public view.

  Sue Grafton

  Character, Views, Water

  Sue Grafton (1992). “"I" is for Innocent”, p.208, Macmillan

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• I was terrified of the Vietnam War when I was 13. I thought I was going. The draft was such an ominous thing, I felt as if it was going to trickle down to me.

  Dylan McDermott

  War, Vietnam, Ominous

  "Dylan McDermott: Dylan Unplugged". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. September 1, 2000.

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• Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Modern India, Addresses, Poverty

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• If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes.

  Dave Van Ronk

  Labels, Crackers, Boxes

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• The president's grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. He seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle class out of government jobs paid for with borrowed dollars.

  Mitch Daniels

  Jobs, Believe, Recovery

  "SOTU: GOP Response". abcnews.go.com.

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• We simply cannot afford to give the reigns of government so someone who will double down on trickle down

  William J. Clinton

  Government, Giving, Reign

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• My friends, that's trickle-down economics, and I believe every worker in America is tired of being trickled on by George W. Bush

  John F. Kerry

  Believe, Tired, America

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• If we want to do more than just end mass incarceration—if we want to put an end to the history of racial caste in America—we must lay down our racial bribes, join hands with people of all colors who are not content to wait for change to trickle down, and say to those who would stand in our way: Accept all of us or none.

  Michelle Alexander

  Hands, Color, America

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.258, The New Press

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• The kind of plan that Donald [Tramp] has put forth would be trickle-down economics all over again. In fact, it would be the most extreme version, the biggest tax cuts for the top percent of the people in this country than we've ever had.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Cutting, People

  Source: time.com

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• I saw young women in the street dressing in a way that I thought was influencing the designers. Fashion was being influenced by all sorts of different people, and culture and also across the street. So I saw more as a trickle up, than a trickle down influence. When I came to Vogue, that's what I wanted it to reflect.

  Anna Wintour

  Fashion, People, Different

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