Kevin Hassett Quotes

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.

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

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

I would say I'm a fiscal conservative and a social liberal, if that contradiction can make sense, because in Bolivia, we have a great problem, which is the inequity of income distribution. The rich aren't that rich, but the poor are very poor.

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there.

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

We face a dilemma because although everybody is better off than they've ever been at any time in our history, we've also got the biggest gap between the rich and the poor that we've ever had, and we've potentially got a planet which is going to go bust any day.

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

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

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.

Poor men's words have little weight.

A rising tide lifts all boats but if you can’t afford a boat, the tide goes up your nose.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

Yet today our splendid theory of government is confronted by a great peril. We have become blind to evils that menace us. We are confronted with glutted markets and idle labor. It is a condition that makes it possible for a few men to become landlords of a proud city like this while God's poor are packed in the slums. Such a condition is not only a menace to Republican institutions, but a travesty upon the gospel of Jesus Christ.

American economic greatness has never trickled down from the top.

Wild globalization has helped some people much, but has hurt most.

The poor are little folks living on little lands who want what we already have.

There is growing inequality. The families of the all-powerful Ministers are getting richer. The poor and hard-working Belizeans are getting poorer.

I think in the last thirty years, the rich have gotten richer and the poor have gotten poorer. It is not something that you can see with rose-colored glasses.

It's one thing to recognize that the gap between the rich and everybody else is growing like a cancer; it's another thing to come up with useful solutions.

Nobody talks about the poor. Everybody talks about the middle class and just kinda want to ignore that the poor exist. And you cannot ignore that they exist if you want to help them.

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.

By 2015, the top 1 percent of families took home more than 20 percent of income. Wealth distribution was 10 times worse than that: the families in the top 1 percent owned as much as the families in the bottom 90 percent.

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.