Dennis Skinner Quotes

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Part of this country's problem is that people from New York City - Wall Streeters - don't think about the little guy who can't afford things.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

Inequality is on the rise.

The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.

... popular art has no chance of a healthy life, or, indeed, of a life at all, till we are on the way to fill up this terrible gulf between riches and poverty.

Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike.

Nobody talks about the poor. Everybody talks about the middle class and just kinda want to ignore that the poor exist. And you cannot ignore that they exist if you want to help them.

Brexit is for the richest in our country: they can afford recessions.

Helping the poor doesn't mean redistributing the wealth. It means removing the breaks that give the wealthy an advantage so huge that big chunks of the nation's income are automatically removed from individual economic competition.

The family of my mother had a lot of money; the family of my father, nothing.

Economic inequality is a corrosive force that undermines economic growth, puts a brake on the fight against poverty, and sparks social unrest.

I think there are many people on £70,000 who may well feel that their circumstances are such that they are not rich.

We need to recognize that it is growing economic inequality that creates the conditions for hate to fester.

Billions of people are being left behind by economic growth.

I think, unfortunately, we've always lived in a world of massive inequality: inequality between the haves and the have-nots, inequality between men and women that not only exists temporally but geographically as well.

Everyone's seen poverty - well, most have.

What good is a high GDP if some, or even many, Americans are left behind?

A lot of people, including me, are worried that inequality will lead to bad things.

Elvis Presley's estate is making 30 million a year, and they say that Marley shouldn't be, but he is from a much poorer part of the world, and a lot more people need the money.

Its all big money, high rent, high prices in New York City now. The poor people completely got rolled over. I've never seen anything like it in my life. It's disgusting.

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

In my view, there is no justice when the 15 wealthiest people in this country in the last two years, saw their wealth increase by $170 billion. That is more wealth acquired in a two year period than is owned by the bottom 130 million Americans.