Charles E. Schumer Quotes

An elite is someone who's for themselves and not for the country.

President Reagan preached 'trickle down economics' but naively did not reckon on the fact that the wealthy would only care about getting more for themselves instead of caring about helping those with less.

The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot of rich, pious hypocrites who want to share only enough to avoid widespread starvation, mob violence, and government seizure of more of their incomes.

Beware of all men who would turn the tasks and the necessities of the nation to their own private profit or use them for the building up of private power.

... the wrong and evils of the money-piling tendency of our country ... giving all power to the rich and bringing in pauperism.

All I know is that Conservatives aren't interested in helping anybody but themselves get richer.

Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.

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.

Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.

We have a lot of things we give away to people who are very, very wealthy in this country. And I'm not sure that our federal government can afford that.

All over the U.S. there are people whose lives are being destroyed for lack of proper health care provision, and there is no sight more odious than the rich, powerful and arrogant trying to keep it that way.

I had hoped that foreboding economic circumstances would have caused the ultra-rich to think not just of themselves and increasing their own personal affluence. Unfortunately, however, too many of them lack concern, and without this concern, the divisive imbalance will only worsen with recession.

I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do.

We certainly want those at the top to do well, but if you base your entire presidency and your entire economic platform on helping them do even better, you're missing what makes the economy tick. Because not everyone has been as fortunate as Mitt Romney, you cannot base your whole approach on a life experience as rarified as his.

You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

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.

It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite.

I don't like gross monetary inequities. I firmly believe that the wrong people and the wrong professions are being rewarded, and rewarded absurdly, and that the hardest work the obscenely rich do is ensuring that they preserve their privileges, status symbols, and bloated bank accounts.

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition.

Each man seeks his own interest, not the general interest. Let his own selfish interests be touched, and all concord is at an end.

If you love friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money. And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.

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