Barack Obama Quotes

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

This country is very good at creating wealth, but not very good at distributing it.

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

There’s just too much money in the hands of too few.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

In the United States you have socialism for the rich and free markets for the poor.

No harm is done by the possession of Luxury by some people if only at the same time EVERYBODY HAS ENOUGH. The wrong incurred by the rich toward the poor lies solely in the fact that while they revel, the poor starve

At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

Let some people get rich first.

Never forget that there are rich people in poor countries and poor people in rich countries.

It is the unvarying law that the wealth of the community will be in the hands of the few ...

This contempt for money is a trick developed by the rich to keep the poor without it.

The distribution of wealth is just as important as its creation.

Today, half of the national income goes to the richest 10 percent. In 2007, the top 1 percent controlled 34.6 percent of the wealth—significantly more than the bottom 90 percent who control just 26.9 percent.

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

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.

President Reagan told us from the beginning that he believed in a kind of Social Darwinism, survival of the fittest ... [that] we should settle for taking care of the strong, and hope that economic ambition and charity will do the rest. Make the rich richer, and what falls from the table will be enough for the middle class and those who are trying desperately to work their way into the middle class.

I think inequality has gone past the point where it's helping us all get rich, and it's really becoming a serious threat.

Wealth is used to entrench inequality, not to trickle down and solve it.

We plutocrats need to get this trickle-down economics thing behind us: this idea that the better we do, the better everyone else will do. It's not true. How could it be? I earn 1,000 times the median wage, but I do not buy 1,000 times as much stuff, do I?

I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.

Americans are falling out of the middle class, not into it. And they deserve relief. I absolute support extending the Bush tax cuts for those who work the hardest and invest the most in our economy - the real drivers of American growth, the middle class.

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.