Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

I do worry about a world in which the rich get to write the rules.

Tough love is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.

Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.

Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon.

Putting middle class families in jeopardy in order to protect the wealthiest among us isn't consistent with the values and priorities that most Americans share.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

I hear all this, you know, 'Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.' No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own - nobody.

The superrich should pay higher taxes in order to restore the inclusive society that I grew up in.

The messenger matters. When people of modest means complain about inequality, it usually gets written off as class warfare, but when billionaires complain, the problem is redefined.

Support of private ownership does not mean that anyone has the right to unlimited accumulation of wealth

If work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

A conservative is someone who demands a square deal for the rich.

The rights of the minority must be protected and the rich are always fewer in number than the poor.

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn’t seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Throughout history, this is something that the top 1 percent eventually do learn. Too late.

Governor Romney wants those who have less to do more, and those who have more to do less

It turns out that the rich are much better placed to feed at the public trough. The poor get crumbs.

I have always felt intuitively that somehow such wealth cannot be the privy of any one person or any one family.

Top 1 Percent progressivism emphasizes the idea of fairness - but it's nevertheless a politics of outrage, animated by at least a trace of envy. It's as if 'millionaires and billionaires' were the principal problem facing America today.

I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

It's not class warfare to suggest that we shouldn't look to seniors and the less fortunate to bear the brunt of deficit reduction. I believe America needs to understand there needs to be a sense of fairness.

Ordinary people understand that the rich and powerful bully the poor and meek.

I don't think equality is intrinsically valuable, meaning in and of itself. I'm not against inequality... if Bill Gates gets another hundred million dollars, it's no skin off my nose.

Only the rich can get justice, only the poor cannot escape it.