Victoria Coren Mitchell Quotes

You've got the top 400 Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. Most folks do not think that is right.

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

Welfare for the wealthy simply can no longer be afforded.

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

There’s a mal-distribution in wealth in this country. Entitlements end up going to the rich anyway. Some of them should be attacked. The ones who rip us off, the ones who get bailed out.

American economic greatness has never trickled down from the top.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

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.

Our family's fortune is growing faster than ever. We're a part of a small number of American families that own most of the country's wealth. But having so much in the hands of so few can't be good for America.

The issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.

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

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

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.

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

The top 1 percent in the state increased its share of the income from 10 to 22 percent. The bottom 80 percent of the state is declining. That’s just a fairness fact.

The financial rewards of economic change have accrued disproportionately to the most talented and well-educated members of society.

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.

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

No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth.

I could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those living off government largesse enjoyed trinkets that I only dreamed about.

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

Elvis Presley's estate is making 30 million a year, and they say that Marley shouldn't be, but he is from a much poorer part of the world, and a lot more people need the money.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.