Richard Ojeda Quotes

The Occupy movement has drawn attention to how too many in the 1 percent get to play by their own rules while exploiting the 99 percent.

I'm really sick of the 'one percent' that is taking all the money from this country, draining the middle class, making it nonexistent.

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.

In the last recession, 99 percent of us have lost wealth, but did you know that the top 1 percent increased their wealth five times? It tells you they create recessions so they get wealthier.

At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

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.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

All the measures of government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

If anyone’s declared class warfare, it’s the people who inhabit the top rungs of big corporations and Wall Street … They have declared it on average workers.

The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

In America, the top 1 percent led the country into war and economic devastation, leaving the less fortunate to fight for one and pay for both.

The wealthy have installed their slaves in the highest spheres of the state. The banks are privately owned. They are concerned solely with profits. They have no interest in the common good.

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.

First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it's a false statistic. There's nobody that is wealthy saying, let's go get the people that aren't. First of all, there's no versus. He's creating a false class warfare in a country where there is no class structure.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist.

Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers

Corporations gorged with profit ... menace the stability of society.

The saddest part is that the public officials, both State and Federal, are in league with the capitalists in making the rich richer, and the poor poorer.