Cristina Saralegui Quotes

Sometimes I make more money in a weekend than my grandpa made in a year.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

I'm not normally a jewelry person. I'm supposed to be a working class champion and all, and I don't like to rub my success in people's faces.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

I have a feeling that life as a billionaire in Silicon Valley is very different than the life that you or I would lead. Unless you're a billionaire; I don't know your financial situation.

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there.

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

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

I don't want there to be this separation between the rich and poor. I may be part of the three percent because I've been fortunate and done well for myself, but I will never forget about the 97 percent. That was me growing up. I was so poor I dreamt about being just 'regular poor,' not 'poor, poor.'

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

Los Angeles cannot permanently exist as two cities—one amazingly prosperous, the other increasingly poorer in substance and in hope.... This city, like the nation, is living with an increasing polarization of incomes. A rising tide no longer lifts all boats.

There are only two families in the whole world, my old grandmother used to say, The Haves and the Have-Nots.

The association of poverty with progress is the enigma of our times.

Poverty divide not only nations but societies within nations.

The middle class serves as a bridge between the haves and the have-nots. If it goes, so goes political stability.

one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

The middle class of this country, our historic backbone and our best hope for a strong society in the future, is losing its place at the table.

As income inequality increases, social mobility falls.

This country is very good at creating wealth, but not very good at distributing it.

No society is healthy when the gap between the rich and the poor is growing.

The burning issue of our time is the growing inequality in income and wealth in our country.

How can a guy talk about $20 or $30 million if he's never even made $8 or $9 million?

I do think that there is both a very powerful sense of entitlement and a kind of bubble of wealth which makes it hard for the people at the very top to understand the travails of the middle class.