Steve Scalise Quotes

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

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

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

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

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.

The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich.

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.

Republicans look after the rich, and Democrats focus on the needs of the middle class. Neither of them looks after the poor.

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

The needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich

The middle class serves as a bridge between the haves and the have-nots. If it goes, so goes political stability.

We oppose monopoly, the tendency of which is to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

The middle class of this country, our historic backbone and our best hope for a strong society in the future, is losing its place at the table.

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

There’s been an economic war going on in this country and the middle class and the poor have been losing..

We cannot continue to have the upper class wealty getting richer and richer, the middle class shrinking and 43 million living in poverty.

I do think that there is both a very powerful sense of entitlement and a kind of bubble of wealth which makes it hard for the people at the very top to understand the travails of the middle class.

I think in the last thirty years, the rich have gotten richer and the poor have gotten poorer. It is not something that you can see with rose-colored glasses.

It is easy to say that there are the rich and the poor, and so something should be done. But in history, there are always the rich and the poor. If the poor were not as poor, we would still call them the poor. I mean, whoever has less can be called the poor. You will always have the 10% that have less and the 10% that have the most.

For 40 years, the American middle class has been disappearing. Millions of people are working longer hours for lower wages despite a huge increase in technology and productivity. And what we have seen during that period is a massive transfer of trillions of dollars from the middle class to the top one-tenth of 1 percent of America

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

It's morally wrong, and economically self-defeating, that so much wealth flows upwards towards the richest of Americans, while millions work full time but still can't provide for their families.

Conservatives believe the economy functions better if the rich have more money and everyone else has less. But they're wrong. It's just the opposite.

No matter how wealthy a few plutocrats get, we can never drive a great national economy. Only a thriving middle class can do that.