Robert Greenwald Quotes

The right wing has an ecosystem that is funded by billionaires who want tax cuts.

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

Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

The dirty little secret on Wall Street: Eighty percent of the Wall Street executives' and their spouses' donations go to Democrats. It's like they've got some kind of little sweet deal, where we'll call you fat cats and demean you and stuff, but you will get richer than your wildest dreams.

In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally, operates.

Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what they want.

Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they're so rich, they feel they don't work that much for all that money - and they don't, for the amount of money they make.

I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing.

Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government.

The messenger matters. When people of modest means complain about inequality, it usually gets written off as class warfare, but when billionaires complain, the problem is redefined.

Maybe, just maybe, something is wrong when the greatest part of new money earned in our country goes to the top 1 percent.... There is something profoundly wrong then the millionaires and billionaires are running the politics of our country.... When billionaires are buying elections, that is not democracy.

President Junior is the mascot of crony capitalism.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of the country.

Allow the rich (no matter under what pretext, whether of philanthropy, or patriotism, or interest) to prescribe the education of the poor, and they prescribe their condition and relative importance.

You do not compromise with the right wing of the Republican party.

America’s super-elite has been particularly effective at using the tools of a political democracy to protect its minority privilege.

Throughout our history - and that of the world - it's always come down to the friction between the haves and have-nots or between the average Joes and the large corporations. So that's a recurring theme in my work.

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

It's an absurd world - you know, billionaires in Birkenstocks. But I'd rather have nerdy tech guys as the next Carnegie than oil tycoons.

Sadly, the system in this country is rigged in favor of wealthy elites who have purchased tremendous influence in our government.

The elites have become international, and they've ceased to have a primary loyalty to the nation-state.

Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.