Bernie Sanders Quotes

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.

So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?'

The superrich should pay higher taxes in order to restore the inclusive society that I grew up in.

Share the Wealth

It's not class warfare to talk about fairness.

Unless you’re at the very top, you need a more equitable economy.

I don't subscribe to the view that people who are better off don't want to live in a more equal society.

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don't be greedy, share.

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.

To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.

Putting middle class families in jeopardy in order to protect the wealthiest among us isn't consistent with the values and priorities that most Americans share.

Fair Shares for All, is Labour's Call

We’ve taken care not to penalize the wealthy but we have to redistribute some income …It is through reform that we can obtain fairness in the modern world…A reformed welfare state is the only way to obtain social justice.

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

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

One way to reduce income inequality is to get rid of the rich. If Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Rupert Murdoch and their billionaire friends could be persuaded to emigrate from the United States, income inequality would decrease overnight.

The wealthy have a responsibility to invest in addressing inequality. This is especially true when constraints on others are so great.

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

In a good society, those in the middle and at the bottom ought to benefit significantly from economic growth. When the country prospers, everybody should prosper.

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.

I have always felt intuitively that somehow such wealth cannot be the privy of any one person or any one family.

We must ensure the economy really works for all, to address unconscionable wealth and income disparities that allow access to opportunity for some over others.

'Redistributing the wealth' - that phrase gets used so much that you almost get numb to it.

Progressive taxation can offset the effect of growing inequality.