Cory Booker Quotes

There’s been an economic war going on in this country and the middle class and the poor have been losing..

Films set in 90210 are ten a penny. But there's rarely room to make films about a different postal code, to show the lives of ordinary Americans who have to live with very limited material resources.

Americans understand that rising drug prices, wage stagnation and inadequate infrastructure affect everyone, regardless of race.

When you go to places like Gary and Detroit, you see the economic problem in this country and who it's really affecting.

We oppose the benefit cap. We oppose social cleansing. We will bring the welfare bill down by controlling rents and boosting wages, not by impoverishing families and socially cleansing our communities.

'Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream' is an intentionally angry film. How could it not be when the chance of an infant dying is five times greater on the Bronx Park Avenue than on Manhattan's Park Avenue just across the Harlem River?

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success.

A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages.

When journalists and politicians speak of a dwindling middle class that's under economic assault and a poor community that's getting bigger, they're talking about Ferguson. Independent of the racial demographics and dynamics of Ferguson, Missouri, there's a 'Ferguson' near you.

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.

Many of my friends and family are scratching it out somewhere decidedly south of the ever widening gap between the haves and have nots, looking at losing their homes, colleges they can't afford and healthcare they can't avail themselves of.

If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise awareness just of the simple humanity.

During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks.

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

The poor will never cease out of the land.

There is not enough wealth in the cities to redistribute it from those who are wealthy to those who are poor.

Poverty abides no line drawn by color or culture.

When I was a young fellow I was very much disturbed by there being some people with lots of money and lots of people with no money.

The high price, therefore, which is so much complained of by the poor, has essentially mitigated their distress by bringing down to their level two or three millions more, and making them almost equal sharers in the pressure of the scarcity.

The working class’s share in the national product is constantly diminishing – there is not a shade of doubt about that. The working class is becoming poorer not only relatively, but absolutely too; its income, far from increasing in the same progression as those of other classes in society, is falling; the real wages of the modern proletarian (the quantity of consumer goods falling to his share) are less than the worker’s pay was five hundred years ago

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves