Jeff Sessions Quotes

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

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

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

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

As long as the working-people fold hands and pray the gods in Washington to give them work, so long they will not get it. So long as they tramp the streets, whose stones they lay, whose filth they clean, whose sewers they dig, yet upon which they must not stand too long lest the policeman bid them "move on"; as long as they go from factory to factory, begging for the opportunity to be a slave, receiving the insults of bosses and foremen, getting the old "no," the old shake of the head, in these factories they built, whose machines they wrought; so long as they consent to herd like cattle, in the cities, driven year after year, more and more, off the mortgaged land, the land they cleared, fertilized, cultivated, rendered of value; so long as they stand shivering, gazing thro' plate glass windows at overcoats, which they made, but cannot buy, starving in the midst of food they produced but cannot have; so long as they continue to do these things vaguely relying upon some power outside themselves, be it god, or priest, or politician, or employer, or charitable society, to remedy matters, so long deliverance will be delayed.

American economic greatness has never trickled down from the top.

The Obama economy is great for rich people. It's terrible for everybody else.

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

The rich did well under Obama's policies; it was the working class that got creamed. This was because the economy just wouldn't grow as it usually does.

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.

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.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

When inequality gets too extreme, then it becomes useless for growth, and it can even become bad because it tends to lead to high perpetuation of inequality over time and low mobility.

If you want to do something to destroy consumer spending, just eat away at the middle class because the other problem we have is the structural problem of middle class America.

A recession is predominantly for the middle class. Where I come from, the majority of people have always lived in a recession.

There is a legitimate concern about wealth distribution in the United States, but the answer is not to scapegoat any individual who makes over $200,000 per year and to try to sell the fraud that the government can equitably take the money of those who have earned it and give it to those who haven't.

Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.

Rising inequality is toxic to growth. High levels of inequality exclude people - both as innovators and customers - diminishing both innovation and demand.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

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

There's nothing more unfair than a guy that doesn't have a job.

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

In a morally adjusted economy ... the rich should not get richer if the poor get poorer.

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

Unequal wealth distribution is a risk factor for inequality that must be attacked by policies.