David Duchovny Quotes

It is very easy for middle-class people who come from moneyed backgrounds not to understand what it's like for people when they first go down to the dole office because they've lost their jobs.

The minimum wage is something that F.D.R. put in place a long time ago during the Great Depression. I don't think it worked then. It didn't solve any problems then and it hasn't solved any problems in 50 years.

It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.

When you look at what we spend on entertainment, whether it's on CDs, music, DVDs, there is so much money invested in that, people want to know a little more about the stars they're paying to see or hear.

I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?

Anybody who says they don't want to be seen on a show which has millions of people watching it at one time when they're in the business of selling records is a bit silly.

Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.

I often think what it was like not to have much money. I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.

Well, actually, I do the voiceover for Quentin Sands.

In July of 2010, I lost my finance job in Chicago. Instead of updating my resume and looking for a similar job, I decided to forget about money and have a go at something I truly enjoyed. I'd purchased a semi-professional camera earlier that year and spent my free time taking photos in downtown Chicago.

The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.

It seems to me that most people are interested in reading about characters who are richer than they are.

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

The worst thing we could do is impose time limits and then expect people to sink or swim once they move off welfare.

The Negro today perhaps has more political power than ever before and he is worse off than ever before. It is not votes but dollars that count in this civilization.

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

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

I'm tired of people on trust funds telling people on food stamps how to live.

The American economy cannot be considered healthy when most of its workers and consumers are not.

The sad fact is that in communities such as mine, the minimum wage is the maximum wage.

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

What is this War on Poverty? Money is going to people in Chicago who are against me.

Poor people don’t employ people; only rich people do.

Maybe it’s that silver spoon in his [Mitt Romney’s] mouth that keeps him from seeing why the middle class doesn’t pull itself up by its bootstraps, like he did when Daddy loaned him his first million dollars.

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.