Jamie Dimon Quotes

Big government doesn't help the middle class, it buries it.

Jobless Men Keep Going We Can’t Take Care of Our Own

There are 500,000 poor children in this state that did not choose to be poor, and we have to take care of them.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

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

The War on Poverty did not work because it was a war on shame … a war on the family and a war on God.

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

A New Dealer regrets poverty and deplores the fact that it is necessary for society to slough off its misfits as an individual sheds his impurities and his diseases. But New Dealers believe that human want and human distress should be prevented or at least ameliorated.

Bribing rich people to help poor people, rather than helping poor people directly, is a popular approach because the cost of tax breaks doesn't show up on the government books.

What is this War on Poverty? Money is going to people in Chicago who are against me.

The government’s unprecedented expenditures failed to bring about the decline in poverty that Johnson had promised. Instead, they made things worse.

Every two weeks, I'd get a small pay-check and notice the line where federal and state income taxes were deducted from my wages. At least as often, our drug-addict neighbor would buy T-bone steaks, which I was too poor to buy for myself but was forced by Uncle Sam to buy for someone else.

We need to truly understand what economic injustice and inequality looks like for hard-working Canadians grappling with it every day on the ground, at home and at work.

Until people realise benefits doesn't mean scrounger, and austerity isn't a fun middle-class way to grow your own vegetables, there's still a lot of work to do.

It is simply not credible to tackle child poverty without acknowledging the worst issue - a lack of money.

I've always thought my main concern is to alleviate the burdens on people, who were earning less money, perhaps than £80,000.

Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brain's cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age.

The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up.

I couldn't do it at all. I was never really good at it, but I can't imagine what it can be like as a fortunate person not having to deal with it. I mean, people of all ages, not just my age, 25, 35, all the way down the line.

If someone believes that living on benefits is a lifestyle choice, then we need to make them think again.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

I am in favor of reducing all budget items. But the item I don't want to reduce is the pension expenditure because it affects the weakest part of society.

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.