Edward D. Kleinbard Quotes

The issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.

… perceptions of poverty have gone up because there’s been rising inequality.

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

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

Unequal wealth distribution is a risk factor for inequality that must be attacked by policies.

There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.

Inequality of income is bad for everyone, not just the poor and the middle class.

Liberty is impossible if 36 thousand families at the top of the economic pyramid get as much income as 12 million families at the bottom.

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

No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth.

I don't really care much about what the top one per cent earn. The gap we ought to care about in wealth is between the middle and the bottom.

1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing.

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.

If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.

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.

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

Hunger, the inseparable companion of the poor, is the offspring of the unequal distribution of the wealth and the injustices in this world. The rich do not know hunger.

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

The real threat to the democracy is the half a nation in poverty.

Income inequality is not a bad thing. Income inequality is a good thing.

There are no great lords who possess everything and a herd of people who have nothing

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

Income inequality is the central problem all the way across the world.

There’s a mal-distribution in wealth in this country. Entitlements end up going to the rich anyway. Some of them should be attacked. The ones who rip us off, the ones who get bailed out.

Americans have historically been more willing than Europeans to tolerate high inequality levels if accompanied by strong economic growth and a healthy middle class.