Andrew Cuomo Quotes

People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

I believe this country is in real trouble, and it's up to us, to fix it before its too late.

The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

People say 'what do you mean' when you talk about 'bringing down civilization.' What I really mean is depriving the rich of the ability to steal from the poor and depriving the powerful of the ability to destroy the planet. That's what I really mean.

Because Katrina put it out there, no one can play the pretend game anymore that there isn't poverty and inequality in this country. The Millions More Movement - Katrina gives it added significance.

Unless the poor of the world agitate for themselves to be heard, there will be no changes in their circumstances.

There are corporations worth billions of dollars—and hundreds of thousands of people who don't get to eat.

Workers cannot buy with their salaries what they have produced and at the same time copiously nourish the swarm of idlers who live upon their work.

The cleavages Trump has revealed are too deep

In politics, reform never comes before crisis.

We absolutely have to change the status quo in Washington.

If everyone simply ignores the caste system, it will go away overnight.

America certainly is a great country with plenty of freedoms, but there are a lot of systemic issues that need to change.

The ruling ideology prefers to talk about individual ethics rather than the capitalist system.

We continue to see our elected officials working extra hard to create a 'good climate for business' that leads to disinvestment in public infrastructure and tax incentives to the detriment of cities, while enriching private business and further entrenching poverty. And our cities are told by legislators to use their bootstraps to survive.

Changing the ways of governments usually doesn't happen quickly, but time is a luxury the world no longer enjoys.

Our political systems clearly are not working.

Poverty. Racism. Isn't it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?

The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.

When I find too many puzzles about the way explanations are given about why there is inequality - why people who work the hardest in the world end up being the poorest - I can't just sit back and not try to understand why the gaps between people are increasing, or why there are so many homeless and hungry people in the world.

Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves from the issue by saying that if the poor worked harder, they wouldn't be poor.

As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth.

What I have found is that even when you try to transform existing structures they are so powerful they often overwhelm, seduce, and control you.