Jimmy Gomez Quotes

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

…nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.

Members of the middle class do not have to worry about falling off $250,000 sailboats because they don't have $250,000 sailboats to fall off of.

Inequality is on the rise in Canada and those at the top have no idea what life is like for most Canadian families.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Being outside the candy store looking in is the state of people today. Whether you're in a Pakistani village watching somebody in a car drive by, or you're in the city of Lahore going to a restaurant and seeing somebody with a security entourage coming in... you're exposed to people with more.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Those of us who have been economically successful cannot forget those who have not.

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.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

The Republicans called it “trickle down” when Hoover tried it. Now they call it “supply side”. But it’s the same shining city for those relative few who are lucky enough to live in its good neighborhoods. But for the people who are excluded—for the people who are locked out—all they can do is stare from a distance at that city’s glimmering towers.

Liberty is impossible if 36 thousand families at the top of the economic pyramid get as much income as 12 million families at the bottom.

Working-class people don't tend to be wooed by celebrity.

Do you think we enjoy hearing about your brand-new million-dollar home when we can barely afford to eat Kraft Dinner sandwiches in our own grimy little shoe boxes and we're pushing thirty? A home you won in a genetic lottery, I might add, sheerly by dint of your having been born at the right time in history? You'd last about ten minutes if you were my age these days.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

Growing up on, say, the Upper East Side, you're so isolated. If you go to the Hamptons every weekend, you never talk to a construction worker, and the construction worker would never talk to you.

I think true economic class unhappiness comes from when across the street someone has a new Cadillac and you can't get that.

We can't have Harlem become one borough for the rich.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

Rich folks always talk hard times.

If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.

It is clear that the economy has not gotten better for everyone.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Everything in America is so stratified by class now. We have the 93rd level of income inequality in the world. You're already seeing highway lanes that are for pay and ones that aren't.

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.