Charles Barkley Quotes

The Democrat is the party that's gonna keep you poor!

Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.

I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.

Republicans are the party of the rich. The Democrats are the party of the people.

Money has made it more difficult for Democrats to define an economic agenda that is different than the Republican agenda; we are taking from the same contributors.

The war on poverty had not been undertaken at the request of the poor.

Poor people don’t make campaign contributions.

For too many years, we, as a country, have suffered from a poverty of aspiration.

A lot of the people that are poor take advantage of loopholes and pay no taxes.

I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean . . .

The only people who really worry about money are the very poor and the very rich.

Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.

It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.

Largely, as a result of the policies and priorities of the Reagan administration, more people are becoming poor and staying poor in this country than at any time since World War II.

I'm sorry, dead people generally vote for Democrats rather than Republicans.

The ones that actually affect people who don't have enough money to change them - which is almost everybody. But that has nothing to do with the president.

Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.

This is why I don't understand Democrats worried about turnout. They get the dead out every year. I mean, what's the problem? But if [Hillary Clinton] wins this, it isn't gonna mean anything to be a Republican.

Those of us in the west have figured out a lot of ways to damage the lives of poor people in this country and around the world over the years.

When I look out [the window] at the big houses on either side of the road, it's obvious we've entered the rich side of town. Poor people don't post signs like NO TRESPASSING, PRIVATE DRIVE, PRIVATE PROPERTY, MONITORED BY CAMERA SURVEILLANCE. I should know because I've been poor my entire life, and the only person I know who ever posted a sign like these is my friend...and he actually stole the sign off a rich guy's yard.

Policies are also to blame: the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor people is charity. Poor people get hand outs from the state. But this is not a solution to poverty.

Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.

I was a Clinton Democrat for twenty years.