Thomas Jefferson Quotes

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

We need to have the social investments by which to quote unquote distribute some of that wealth.

Those who have been most fortunate in amassing wealth in our country should return a portion to the nation, since in many ways they have benefitted the most from our American way of life.

Tampering with the market system to redistribute the wealth or assure that the poor are protected is labeled "socialism." By these standards Jesus was a socialist.

It cannot be said that we dislike paying taxes for the welfare of those less well off than we are, so we develop a draping cover of economic and social theory.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

I don't subscribe to the view that people who are better off don't want to live in a more equal society.

You are not going to lift everybody out of poverty through the kindness of wealthy people.

If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.

Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.

Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.

People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.

'Egalitarians' who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth.

There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.

I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally.

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

The middle class took the taxpayers money and benefits to go to school and get rich and now they don’t want to pay the taxes to pay for the poor of the next generation to have the same opportunity.

The wealthy have a responsibility to invest in addressing inequality. This is especially true when constraints on others are so great.

Abolish Poverty

We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

For me, democratic socialism is about - really, the value for me is that I believe that in a modern, moral, and wealthy society, no person in America should be too poor to live.

If you want to help the poor, help the poor, and with your own time and money. Liberals prefer to do it with someone else's, which is why they love the estate tax.

I try to deal with the poverty gap - to do policies for all of us rather than only for the wealthy.