Barbara Mikulski Quotes

I agree that income disparity is the great issue of our time. It is even broader and more difficult than the civil rights issues of the 1960s. The '99 percent' is not just a slogan. The disparity in income has left the middle class with lowered, not rising, income, and the poor unable to reach the middle class.

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

... a tax break for the wealthy paid for by the middle class.

They are all afraid to face high taxation to pay for the war. The rich won't stand it—and the poor can't stand it.

Governor Romney wants those who have less to do more, and those who have more to do less

The very rich are moving away from everyone else …. We should be taxing capital gains just like ordinary income.

I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

It's the middle class; it's middle Ireland, and it's a group of people who often feel that they contribute a lot to the economy and a lot to society, but maybe they don't get as much back for it as they should.

Democrats don't resent the rich on behalf of the poor. They resent the rich on behalf of the government.

You campaigned against rich people and you got enough envy whipped up in the country and you're gonna get 'em. You're gonna stick it to those rich people. But guess what? You may not get anymore revenue. You may not get anymore economic growth. But you can say, 'I stuck it to the rich people.'

The rich support the poor primarily via taxes.

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.

When President Obama speaks about raising taxes on the rich, he speaks about high-income employees and small business owners, not entrepreneurs who build big businesses.

If we're not going to tax the rich anymore, we're going to create class warfare.

Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.

There is a legitimate concern about wealth distribution in the United States, but the answer is not to scapegoat any individual who makes over $200,000 per year and to try to sell the fraud that the government can equitably take the money of those who have earned it and give it to those who haven't.

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.

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.

I've seen it with my own eyes: When government takes money from the poor and the middle class, everyone suffers.

The middle class should not continue to foot the bill for tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires.

The superrich should pay higher taxes in order to restore the inclusive society that I grew up in.

The messenger matters. When people of modest means complain about inequality, it usually gets written off as class warfare, but when billionaires complain, the problem is redefined.

When a liberal says they are going to soak the rich, the middle class will get drenched.

No one should be richer than a ten millionaire and no one should be without a home.

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