Bobby Heenan Quotes

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

People who are wealthy tend to be treated much more fairly in our criminal justice system.

In Brazil, a poor man goes to jail when he steals. When a rich man steals, he becomes a minister.

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.

I've had two callers ask, 'Did you ever work for someone who is poorer than you are?' Their idea is it takes a rich person to give you a job because jobs are something that are given to you, an inferior, from on high.

Candidates don't want to be associated with poor people, people who have jobs or are ugly; they want to be associated with a certain middle class demographic, so as a result they leave those others out completely.

Too often, wealthy people born on third base blithely criticize the poor for failing to hit home runs. The advantaged sometimes perceive empathy as a sign of muddle-headed weakness rather than as a marker of civilization.

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

We live in a very classist society, and it's sad and depressing.

There's always been a nasty strain of class prejudice ingrained in the condemnation of football's 'undeserving rich,' as if the working class is uniquely susceptible to being corrupted by money, and as if they deserve their wealth less than those born to it.

When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality.

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.

It's quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not.

When I was a child, I didn't fly - we couldn't afford to fly. Flying was for rich people.

I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

I would not say that George Bush doesn't care about people at all. I think that his loyalties are to the upper class.

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.