Jan Schakowsky Quotes

Austerity is a disaster for everyone but the rich…. It’s crap, but it’s dangerous crap..

Austerity is devastating these communities. The working poor, public sector workers, the disabled, and the vulnerable are the hardest hit by this bankrupt and ideologically driven policy.

The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq.

The New Deal, in my mind, has become a raw deal for my children.

The total impact of the Tory/Liberal tax, welfare and public spending changes has hit the poorest 10% in society disproportionately hard - and women have been affected even more badly than men.

Poverty is a soft pedal upon all branches of human activity.

Harveys opened against the backdrop of Thatcher's greed culture.

By-and-large, these are families that are just waiting to get out of here. They are frustrated; I would be, too. I get frustrated at the cash register counter when the paper runs out.

In America, the top 1 percent led the country into war and economic devastation, leaving the less fortunate to fight for one and pay for both.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success.

Poverty existed before January 20, 2008, OK? Before President Obama took office.

The idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers - that's an old idea that's failed every time it's been tried.

The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

It's true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable.

Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.

If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise awareness just of the simple humanity.

All the actions of your government have been in favour of the markets, and against the people.

I don't think they [Congress] ought to balance their budget on the backs of the poor.

Poverty is an open-mouthed, relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society.

To add current expenses of the Government to the national debt ... and thereby pass the current cost of government to the next generation is not only bad financing but very bad statesmanship.