Dannel Malloy Quotes

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

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

I agree that income disparity is the great issue of our time. It is even broader and more difficult than the civil rights issues of the 1960s. The '99 percent' is not just a slogan. The disparity in income has left the middle class with lowered, not rising, income, and the poor unable to reach the middle class.

We have a choice: we can allow the growing disparity between rich and poor to continue unimpeded, or we can take action to budget responsibly and strengthen and expand the middle class. If we want this economy - and this country - to meet its full potential, the choice is simple.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

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.

I worry about growing income inequality. But I worry even more that the discussion is too narrowly focused. I worry that our outrage at the top 1 percent is distracting us from the problem that we should really care about: how to create opportunities and ensure a reasonable standard of living for the bottom 20 percent.

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

The best social programs we've had in this country are those that have united the middle class and the poor.

If you are poor today, you will always be poor. Only the rich now acquire riches.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.

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.

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.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

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

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and education available to them won't get them closer to the comforts that they see others enjoying, the temptation to take shortcuts can be fierce.

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

No one should have more than five times the wealth of the poorest person.

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

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