Bill Bennett Quotes

I'm not a Mike Bloomberg billionaire.

I was in a high school where everybody was a click better off.

I was brought up in a world of privilege.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

People say law but they mean wealth.

Ironically, if you look at Dianne Feinstein's profile and you look at my profile, I'm the 99 percent. Dianne Feinstein's the one percent. She appeals to one percent.

We've never been people that go around and confront people that have been financially successful and say, 'We hate you. We envy you because of how well you're doing.'

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

We're running out of rich people in this country.

Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.

When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.

'Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.

The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.

My father grew up in a life of extreme privilege.

What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.

If class warfare is being waged in America, my class is clearly winning.

This contempt for money is a trick developed by the rich to keep the poor without it.

one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Like Venice’s oligarchs, America’s super-rich are destroying the social mobility that creates wealth.

This is an impressive crowd -- the haves and the have-mores. Some people call you the elite; I call you my base.

This country is very good at creating wealth, but not very good at distributing it.

If you were a Rockefeller, wouldn’t you be?.

Surrounded by the evidence of their success, the wealthy come to believe that they are fundamentally better than other Americans and that working people deserve their declining fortunes. They trumpet meritocracy while ensuring that their children enjoy crushing advantages from birth. They have unprecedented access to politicians and use it to push policies that swell their wealth while defunding institutions, such as public education, that sustain opportunities for less-fortunate Americans.

Davos is where billionaires tell millionairs what middle class people think.

It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'