Kathleen Turner Quotes

You know, there are people making a lot of money in this country who can actually afford their own health care. We are in a situation where we got a safety net in place in this country for people who frankly don't need one. We got to focus on making sure we got a safety net for those who actually need it.

If someone offered me a hundred million dollars to make a movie? I would first remind him that there are 850 million people in the world who don't have enough to eat.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

To see poor people, their benefits being cut, to see pensions of Americans who have worked like my father, all their lives, and taken away, to see the rich just accumulating more and more wealth. I mean, it seems to me that there has to be a point where you have to say, 'No, this has to stop.'

If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

The issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.

Republicans look after the rich, and Democrats focus on the needs of the middle class. Neither of them looks after the poor.

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

Hunger, the inseparable companion of the poor, is the offspring of the unequal distribution of the wealth and the injustices in this world. The rich do not know hunger.

They are all afraid to face high taxation to pay for the war. The rich won't stand it—and the poor can't stand it.

The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, no worse, for a people than another.

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

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

There are many communities in the United States where the average family income is pitifully low. It is in those communities that we find the poorest educational facilities and the worst conditions of health. Why? It is not because they are satisfied to live as they do. It is because those communities have the lowest per capital wealth and income; therefore the lowest ability to pay taxes; and therefore inadequate functioning of local government.

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

Inequality of income is bad for everyone, not just the poor and the middle class.

… perceptions of poverty have gone up because there’s been rising inequality.