Richard Rogers Quotes

I think in the last thirty years, the rich have gotten richer and the poor have gotten poorer. It is not something that you can see with rose-colored glasses.

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

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.

In a city like New York, you're aware of the rich and poor.

The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider.

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

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

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

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

The poorest people are so incredibly poor, and the rich are so incredibly rich on the other side. That is a kind of fascination.

Obama's economic policies widened the gap between the rich and the poor.

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

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.'

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

If you are poor today, you will always be poor. Only the rich now acquire riches.

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

We cannot continue to have the upper class wealty getting richer and richer, the middle class shrinking and 43 million living in poverty.

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.

It is easy to say that there are the rich and the poor, and so something should be done. But in history, there are always the rich and the poor. If the poor were not as poor, we would still call them the poor. I mean, whoever has less can be called the poor. You will always have the 10% that have less and the 10% that have the most.