Hillary Clinton Quotes

Around the world, elites are making money. There are rich people everywhere! And they don’t contribute much to the development of their own countries.

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.

The struggle for power in our day lies not between Crown and people, or between a caste of nobles and a bourgeoisie, but between the classes who have property and the classes who have none.

The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.

Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee.

The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages.

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

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

The Tory approach depended on benefits trickling down from a process that inevitably strengthened the already strong.

There seems to be a happy concurrence of causes in human affairs, which checks the growth of trade and riches, and hinders them from being confined entirely to one people.

Water does tend to flow up hill toward money and power.

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

What we call Monopoly is Business at the end of its journey. The concentration of wealth, the wiping out of the middle classes, are other names for it. To get it is, in the world of affairs, the chief end of man.

Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

The U. S. business class is highly class conscious and its members have long seen themselves as fighting a bitter class war, except that they don’t want anybody to know about it.

Our nation’s political spectrum is not left to right, but top to bottom. People can locate themselves on this rich-to-poor pole for this is not a theoretical positioning: It’s based on our actual experience with money and power.

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

Trump critics such as myself have been accused of living in a bubble. On the contrary, it is Trump's supporters in the 1 percent who breathed their own fumes.

This notion that borders wouldn't matter, that we would have commonality of interests around the world. Well, guess who got there first? The plutocrats.

The annual 'Forbes' Billionaires List speaks volumes about the movement and concentration of wealth across industries and geographies.

I'm not going to do class warfare; I want to be wealthy.

If only the majority of the wealthiest top 10 percent of Americans own stock directly - which does not include pension and retirement accounts - then the divide between rich and poor is likely to expand.

The concentration of U.S. income and wealth in the hands of the very rich is a new development in my lifetime.

There once was this powerful, both capital and political, class who cared about supporting and affirming a solid middle class in this country.

The only way to gain the kinds of often-generational wealth that the 1% has been able to gain is through controlling the populations it relied on to make its wealth.