Bernie Sanders Quotes

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

It says anybody can make it, because we're all on a level playing field. But we're not on a level playing field. That 's precisely the point, and that's what the rich don't want to look at. They don't want to recognize that they're not producing wealth at all. They're hoarding wealth. That's different.

We plutocrats need to get this trickle-down economics thing behind us: this idea that the better we do, the better everyone else will do. It's not true. How could it be? I earn 1,000 times the median wage, but I do not buy 1,000 times as much stuff, do I?

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

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.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

Our family's fortune is growing faster than ever. We're a part of a small number of American families that own most of the country's wealth. But having so much in the hands of so few can't be good for America.

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.

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

In bad times, the rich usually get richer.

We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody.

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers

No one should have more than five times the wealth of the poorest person.

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

When I was a young fellow I was very much disturbed by there being some people with lots of money and lots of people with no money.

Riches run after the rich, and poverty runs after the poor.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

The rich have all the speech they want; the poor have lockjaw.

... the wrong and evils of the money-piling tendency of our country ... giving all power to the rich and bringing in pauperism.

One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged.