Paul Broun Quotes

Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.

Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?

Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American or European elections. They don't make donations to political parties or hire lobbyists in D.C., London or Canberra.

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

We do not yet have a politics that is equal to the economics around us.

You need money to have advocacy in America. People that don't have money don't have advocacy.

Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?

The concentration of wealth in the hands of the few threatens the ability of ordinary people to raise their voices and have a say over how our societies are run.

I don't work for the rich and powerful. I work for people!

I do believe that power needs to be returned to the states. I think that we've got way too much power in Washington. This is where I'm focused: way too much power in Washington.

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

Elizabeth Warren has been a champion for working people. She has been a champion for Native people. She has been a champion for education and all of the things that we should care about in this country.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

My goal is to eradicate poverty. I think we can't have equality until we eradicate poverty.

This should be the message of Occupy Wall Street: We just want a chance; our government needs to give us a chance.

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

As someone who has dealt with economic hardship, I am committed to making the changes necessary for our country to become more equitable. And to do so, I believe we need to think big.

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

Our country was not built to support blood dynasties or to elevate the rich and famous to a higher ethical or constitutional plain.

Being a foreigner - especially a white and relatively wealthy one - in poor, underdeveloped countries is inherently fraught.

If it doesn't reach the last poor man, your constitution is wrong.

Politicians have patronised and talked down to us all when it comes to our economy, but ordinary working people have to manage on incomes significantly lower than the likes of George Osborne and his friends in the City. They could teach the bankers and many commentators a thing or two about managing a budget responsibly.

What can we do to put more Colorado in Washington and less Washington in Colorado?

The Government should be taking notice of the youth of today so much more. They're trying to keep the rich, rich and the poor, poor. If I sat down with David Cameron in a room, I would ask him how he feels about it and what the hell he's doing about it.