Mike Royko Quotes

The rich have all the speech they want; the poor have lockjaw.

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

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

I've seen it with my own eyes: When government takes money from the poor and the middle class, everyone suffers.

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

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

They are all afraid to face high taxation to pay for the war. The rich won't stand it—and the poor can't stand it.

The poor are little folks living on little lands who want what we already have.

Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who fight and die.

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

Growing richer every day, for as rich and poor are relative terms, when the rich are growing poor, it is pretty much the same as if the poor were growing rich. Nobody is poor when the distinction between rich and poor is destroyed.

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.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart.

The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.

The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.