Wealthy Quotes - Page 5

• The rights of the individual are greatly prized in the developed world, but in many other regions they are considered a luxury reserved for the impossibly wealthy.

  Silvia Cartwright

  Rights, Luxury, World

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• It does not help the vast majority of Americans, but it does really well for people already at the top. Well, we're going to turn that upside down. We're going to make the wealthy pay their fair share in taxes for a change.

  Hillary Clinton

  People, Majority, Doe

  "Report: Ex-Fox Chief Roger Ailes Spent Millions on Enemies; Clinton Responds to Trump's Economic Plan; Clinton Says Trump Will Give "Super-Big Tax Breaks" to Rich; Jeb Bush's Son Breaks with Father And Endorses Trump; Charity Offers Free Soccer Clinics to Thousands". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. August 8, 2016.

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• [Donald Trump] would give wealthy families 30 cents or 40 cents on the dollar for their nannies, and little or nothing for millions of hardworking families trying to afford child care.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Giving, Trying

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Anyone who supported Bernie Sanders who thinks we should raise the minimum wage, who thinks that we should have universal health care coverage, who thinks that the wealthy have not paid their fair share, and I could go on and on, would certainly not find that Donald Trump's views are in line with theirs.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Views, Should Have

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The fundamental problem with the immigration system in our country is that it serves the needs of wealthy donors, political activists and powerful, powerful politicians. It's all you can do.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Powerful, Political

  Donald Trump's Speech On Immigration in Phoenix, Arizona, www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• No matter what precautions we take, no matter how well we have put together a good life, no matter how hard we have worked to be healthy, wealthy, comfortable with friends and family, and successful with our career — something will inevitably ruin it.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Pain, Good Life

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.12, Penguin

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• Will a guaranteed annual wage kill incentive among the poor? If a man is given a certain amount of security, won't he quit working? Exactly the same contention could be made about the sons of the wealthy who are left large fortunes. Yet the evidence suggests that, given economic freedom, people will generally choose to do that which interests them most. It is up to society to see that these interests are widened and that too requires investment.

  Pierre Berton

  Son, Men, People

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• Essentially, we have a system where wealthy farmers feed the poor crap and poor farmers feed the wealthy high-quality food.

  Michael Pollan

  Quality, Poor, Farmers

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• Never before in our country's history has a generation been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged - and yet so empty.

  Ben Shapiro

  Country, Generations, Empty

  Ben Shapiro (2013). “Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism Is Corrupting Our Future”, p.13, Regnery Publishing

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• When you talk about taxing the rich, you're taxing capital, and taxing capital results in damage to more than just the wealthy.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Damage, Rich, Results

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• There never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other.

  John C. Calhoun

  Community, Facts, Portions

  John C. Calhoun “The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 2”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I think the Republican Party is... accurately defined as a party that looks out for the interests of the very wealthy.

  Bob Herbert

  Party, Thinking, Looks

  "Bob Herbert and Reihan Salam on What the 2012 Election Reveals About America". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. November 9, 2012.

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• Of the land which the Romans gained by conquest from their neighbours, part they sold publicly, and turned the remainder into common; this common land they assigned to such of the citizens as were poor and indigent, for which they were to pay only a small acknowledgment into the public treasury. But when the wealthy men began to offer larger rents, and drive the poorer people out, it was enacted by law that no person whatever should enjoy more than five hundred acres of ground.

  Plutarch

  Men, Law, Land

  Plutarch (1861). “Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's”, p.513

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• To be financially wealthy you must have a purpose for your life. In other words, without purpose, you'll never know when you have enough money, and you can never be financially wealthy.

  Gary W. Keller

  Motivation, Purpose, Enough

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• They had a profile of John Kerry on the news and they said his first wife was worth around $300 million and his second wife, his current wife, is worth around $700 million. So when John Kerry says he's going after the wealthy in this country, he's not just talking. He's doing it!

  Jay Leno

  Country, Talking, Wife

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• John Kerry has promised to take this country back from the wealthy. Who better than the guy worth $700 million to take the country back? See, he knows how the wealthy think. He can spy on them at his country club, at his place in Palm Beach, at his house in the Hamptons. He's like a mole for the working man.

  Jay Leno

  Country, Beach, Men

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• Knowing the only way out is education, even if you don't have parents that are extraordinarily wealthy. I understand that I have to be an active participant in [my daughter's] education in order for her to thrive in the world.

  Viola Davis

  Daughter, Order, Knowing

  "EXCLUSIVE: Viola Davis Says Education Saved Her Life, Talks Won't Back Down Impact". Interview with Derrick Bryson Taylor, www.essence.com. September 27, 2012.

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• I've been getting publishing royalties and stuff like that. I have just been lucky. They come in at the right time. Sometimes they don't, but I am not wealthy or anything like that. I just love to work. I would rather work three hundred and something days out of the year. I would rather be working. They don't know. I love playing. Then I can really get my music together.

  Pharoah Sanders

  Years, Together, Lucky

  "A Fireside Chat With Pharoah Sanders". All About Jazz Interview, www.allaboutjazz.com. March 21, 2003.

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• Wealthy people don't even pay taxes. But everybody must pay taxes.

  Petter Stordalen

  People, Pay, Taxes

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• When I talk about the city, I talk about a city that elevates people, which is the strength of New York. We always had the ability to do that. We had the services to do that: good schools, living-wage jobs. We're moving away from that toward a two-tiered system: a small group of very wealthy people and the rest of the city, poor and working poor.

  Sal Albanese

  Jobs, New York, Moving

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• If you decide you want to change your life around, it doesn't matter where you came from, what you did, if you were incarcerated or you are from the projects, if you are an uppity kid who came from a really wealthy family - and all of them do drugs and are into that life - it doesn't matter; come as you are, and God does his work.

  Adrienne Bailon

  Kids, Drug, Doe

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• I come from very conservative parents, and we weren't particularly wealthy, but we were comfortable.

  Richard Armitage

  Parent, Conservative, Comfortable

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• I think that growing up very poor in a very wealthy town gave me a sense of being an outsider, and I hated it when I was growing up.

  Moby

  Growing Up, Thinking, Towns

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• Economy is so riddled with corporate welfare and anti-competitive regulations, anti-innovation regulations. Regulations that are destroying opportunities for the disadvantaged, which is creating this two-tiered system we're headed for which has which is destroying opportunities for the disadvantaged and creating welfare for the wealthy.

  Charles Koch

  Opportunity, Two, Creating

  "Full interview: Charles Koch". "Corner Office" with Kai Ryssdal, www.marketplace.org. October 21, 2015.

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• The earthquake in Haiti was a class-based catastrophe. It didn't much harm the wealthy elite up in the hills, they were shaken but not destroyed. On the other hand the people who were living in the miserable urban slums, huge numbers of them, they were devastated. Maybe a couple hundred thousand were killed. How come they were living there? They were living there because of-it goes back to the French colonial system-but in the past century, they were living there because of US policies, consistent policies.

  Noam Chomsky

  Couple, Past, Hands

  "Chomsky on Haiti". Interview with Keane Bhatt, www.counterpunch.org. March 9, 2010.

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