Larry Elder Quotes

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.

Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.

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

The Tory approach depended on benefits trickling down from a process that inevitably strengthened the already strong.

There are two Americas. One which influences government and economic policy and the other which must live with the results.

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

Only the poor are forbidden to beg.

The greatest issue before the people—the question of special privilege and unequal distribution of wealth.

I'm not interested in defending the position of those who already have money, power and privilege.

Our economic system has enabled companies and individuals to use their power and influence to capture and retain an ever-increasing share of the benefits of economic growth while the benefits for the poorest in society have shrunk.

The middle class creates us rich people, not the other way around.

The most powerful forces in economics are not numbers or facts. They are prejudices and preferences. No amount of evidence will ever change the degree to which many of the rich and powerful prefer themselves to be richer and more powerful and others poorer and weaker.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

We live in a very unequal society.

We're running out of rich people in this country.

Whenever the very rich hold views at odds with those of the entire population, the federal government tends to do the rich's bidding.

People don't want to have to justify their privileges; they don't want to have to justify having access to the power and resource that wealth brings. And by not talking about it, they are able to hold onto their power without being questioned, and I think that makes them feel more secure.

Let some people get rich first.

Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.

I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.