Shaun Wright-Phillips Quotes

Welfare for the wealthy simply can no longer be afforded.

History shows that when you have continuing income inequality it is an invitation to class conflict.

The biggest drag on global growth in the coming decade will be income polarization.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

We plutocrats need to get this trickle-down economics thing behind us: this idea that the better we do, the better everyone else will do. It's not true. How could it be? I earn 1,000 times the median wage, but I do not buy 1,000 times as much stuff, do I?

When I was leader of the GLC, by the time I had been in control for three years, the difference in pay between the cleaner and the director general was a four-to-one ratio. I find that attractive.

It's really Democrats who are fighting for working families and small businesses and trying to address the biggest problems that we have, which are huge disparities in incomes and wealth and money influencing the Democratic process.

Workers in decent jobs view the economy as unjust if they or their children have virtually no chance of climbing to a higher rung in the socioeconomic ladder.

In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

Our family's fortune is growing faster than ever. We're a part of a small number of American families that own most of the country's wealth. But having so much in the hands of so few can't be good for America.

You have to let the market reward effort and skill. But a system in which inequality of incomes constantly increases over time is worrisome.

Income inequality has gotten worse under President Barack Obama.

The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing.

Growing richer every day, for as rich and poor are relative terms, when the rich are growing poor, it is pretty much the same as if the poor were growing rich. Nobody is poor when the distinction between rich and poor is destroyed.

Players don't usually like anybody who makes more money than they do.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

One of the members of the group, I can't remember which one, found out we were making $3 - $5,000 a night. We were getting a hundred dollars a week a piece. Everybody got upset about it.

The biggest single challenge to America and our future is income inequality. We've got to fix it.

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

No one should have more than five times the wealth of the poorest person.

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

The prince should try to prevent too great an inequality of wealth .... prevent the wealth of the multitude from being hoarded by a few.

If work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

When I was a young fellow I was very much disturbed by there being some people with lots of money and lots of people with no money.

There’s just too much money in the hands of too few.