Donna Brazile Quotes

Unequal wealth distribution is a risk factor for inequality that must be attacked by policies.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

The issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.

Well, as you know, there are many things in life that are not fair, that wealthy people can afford and poor people can’t. But I don’t believe that the federal government should take action to try to make these opportunities exactly equal, when there is a moral factor involved.

I don't really care much about what the top one per cent earn. The gap we ought to care about in wealth is between the middle and the bottom.

I try to deal with the poverty gap - to do policies for all of us rather than only for the wealthy.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious?

Pope Francis emphatically does not buy the argument that poverty can be alleviated by the 'trickle down' effects of wealth creation. He is deaf to arguments that the global economy has brought a billion people out of poverty. He is convinced, in short, that the best and only way to expel poverty is fairer distribution of the world's goods.

There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.

Those of us who have been economically successful cannot forget those who have not.

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

It is not the difficulty of the problem which we have; it is the fact that the rich people of this country -- and by rich people I mean the super-rich -- will not allow us to solve the problems, or rather the one little problem that is afflicting this country, because in order to cure all of our woes it is necessary to scale down the big fortunes, that we may scatter the wealth to be shared by all of the people.

As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty spread and special privilege grow.

There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.

The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.

… perceptions of poverty have gone up because there’s been rising inequality.

Tax breaks and other financial breaks that favor the wealthiest among us do not create greater prosperity for all; they simply siphon off more and more money to those who already have it, and more and more money away from those who do not.

No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth.

Economic inequality is not about food stamps and homeless shelters. It is about being a devotee of social justice and equality.

Those on the downside of rising economic inequality generally do not want government policies that look like handouts. They typically do not want the government to make the tax system more progressive, to impose punishing taxes on the rich, in order to give the money to them. Redistribution feels demeaning. It feels like being labeled a failure.

Nobody talks about the poor. Everybody talks about the middle class and just kinda want to ignore that the poor exist. And you cannot ignore that they exist if you want to help them.

We must ensure the economy really works for all, to address unconscionable wealth and income disparities that allow access to opportunity for some over others.

Economic inequality is a corrosive force that undermines economic growth, puts a brake on the fight against poverty, and sparks social unrest.