Bernie Sanders Quotes

Wealth inequality has increased.

American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.

There’s just too much money in the hands of too few.

There's not a lot of wealth throughout all the country shared equally.

The United States is the richest and also the most unequal country in the world.

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.

In America, the 1 percent and the 10 percent are doing just fine, but the people who are bearing the brunt of this economy are the ones who suffer.

America has become the most unequal society among advanced countries, and rich people are now free to spend as much money on political campaigns as they wish.

Here's what income and wealth inequality is about. Last year, the top 25 hedge fund managers made more than 24 billion, enough to pay the salaries of 425,000 public school teachers. This level of inequality is neither moral or sustainable

There is far too little discussion in Washington about the collapse of the middle class , almost no discussion at all about the incredible income inequality and wealth inequality in this country, and the fact that we're moving toward an oligarch form of society.

The interesting thing about class warfare is that it's only class warfare if it's up, not down. If you talk about welfare cheats or something, that's not class warfare because it's down; you have to talk about rich people before it's class warfare.

This is not class warfare. It’s math.

We live in a country where a small number of people have incredible wealth and power. America has more income and wealth inequality than any other major country.

By some estimates, income and wealth inequality are near their highest levels in the past hundred years, much higher than the average during that time span and probably higher than for much of American history before then.

The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.

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.

There's a wealth gap that is happening, and that is all over the world, you know? The rich are getting richer and holding a higher percentage of money or wealth that's out there.

The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider.

Inequalities of wealth lead to a dispersion in wealth for all.

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

Today, half of the national income goes to the richest 10 percent. In 2007, the top 1 percent controlled 34.6 percent of the wealth—significantly more than the bottom 90 percent who control just 26.9 percent.

Talking about income inequality, even if you're not on the Forbes 400 list, can make us feel uncomfortable. It feels less positive, less optimistic, to talk about how the pie is sliced than to think about how to make the pie bigger.

Obama's economic policies widened the gap between the rich and the poor.

The U.S. has some of the most significant income inequality in the developed world, yet people seem routinely to underestimate that fact.

I think the media and the candidates have got to talk about why the middle class is in decline and why we have massive levels of income and wealth inequality.