Donald Trump Quotes

Today we have families that can buy a congressman and families that cannot buy food for the table.

Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

The gap between rich and poor is widening dramatically. There's a hangar at the Cairo airport for private jets, billionaires are on the Forbes list, and Egypt's annual per-capita income is two thousand dollars. How can you sustain that?

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.

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

Politics is the gentle art of obtaining votes from the poor and campaign contributions from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Let Socialists make the laws today and they would break them tomorrow. No sooner do the poor become rich than they harden their hearts to the miseries of the poor. In so far as it proposes to correct the evils of unequal fortune, Socialism aims to repeal the laws of nature.

The military budget got out of control and the tax cuts were helping the wealthy …. President Reagan was less and less interested in what I had to say

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

The rich are hijacking American democracy.

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

On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.

The poorest people are so incredibly poor, and the rich are so incredibly rich on the other side. That is a kind of fascination.

High levels of economic inequality lead to imbalances in political power, as those at the top use their economic weight to shape our politics in ways that give them more economic power.

Obama's economic policies widened the gap between the rich and the poor.

The average guy doesn't have an army of lobbyists and lawyers working on his behalf every day in the White House.

Money doesn't just buy a nice car; it also buys better education or healthcare. Increasingly, it can buy impunity from justice, a pliant media, favorable laws, business advantage, and even elections. This, in turn, perpetuates the policies that allow a tiny elite to accumulate ever more wealth at the expense of the majority.

The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one.

Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not say, but then La Rochefoucauld never lived in the Bronx.

We just watched this budget debacle right? Seventy-three percent of Americans want to tax the rich. Why can't the politicians respond to that? Because they are the rich. And they are beholden to the rich. It's a captured system.

Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.

The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.