Bob Dole Quotes

Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?

Politicians don't like to target benefits to poor people, because poor people don't contribute to their campaigns.

Today we have families that can buy a congressman and families that cannot buy food for the table.

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

Never forget that there are rich people in poor countries and poor people in rich countries.

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

The poor are little folks living on little lands who want what we already have.

I really don't think we've become a plutocracy, but I worry about the enormous influence that money has in a democracy such as ours.

You need money to have advocacy in America. People that don't have money don't have advocacy.

If money is free speech, the big interests are sitting in front with megaphones and the average citizens are sitting in the back.

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet's 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

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.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

What many economists fail to understand is that poor people are no less concerned about improving their lot and that of their children than rich people are.

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

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

It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.

The biggest problem is that the rich people paying the bills do not share the same goals as the poor people they are trying to help. The wealthy have weak incentives to get the right amount of the right thing to those who need it; the poor are in no position to complain if they don’t.

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