Tucker Carlson Quotes

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.

This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.

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

We will not settle for a state that will settle for an underclass.

But I think most importantly, we need to realize that not everyone is privileged or born into a good life, stable homes or a home, period.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky - in the big cities, too, for that matter.

It is not acceptable that European Union countries are divided into those who give and those who take.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving.

If you have extremes of haves and have-nots where the gap keeps growing, the have-nots group together and create social disorder, as they can't see a way out of their situation.

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

One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle, you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.

I've lived places these guys can't defecate in.

We spend more on cows than the poor.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

There are people in whole parts of our cities who are being totally left behind and disregarded. They are unheard. They are told they are unneeded by this economy. And that extreme poverty breeds conditions for extreme violence.

Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.

If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.