Bernie Sanders Quotes

I agree that income disparity is the great issue of our time. It is even broader and more difficult than the civil rights issues of the 1960s. The '99 percent' is not just a slogan. The disparity in income has left the middle class with lowered, not rising, income, and the poor unable to reach the middle class.

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

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

Los Angeles cannot permanently exist as two cities—one amazingly prosperous, the other increasingly poorer in substance and in hope.... This city, like the nation, is living with an increasing polarization of incomes. A rising tide no longer lifts all boats.

The burning issue of our time is the growing inequality in income and wealth in our country.

There’s been an economic war going on in this country and the middle class and the poor have been losing..

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.

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.

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

It's morally wrong, and economically self-defeating, that so much wealth flows upwards towards the richest of Americans, while millions work full time but still can't provide for their families.

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.

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

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.

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

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.

We live in a world in which we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots.

The biggest single challenge to America and our future is income inequality. We've got to fix it.

I don't want there to be this separation between the rich and poor. I may be part of the three percent because I've been fortunate and done well for myself, but I will never forget about the 97 percent. That was me growing up. I was so poor I dreamt about being just 'regular poor,' not 'poor, poor.'

The messenger matters. When people of modest means complain about inequality, it usually gets written off as class warfare, but when billionaires complain, the problem is redefined.

An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Republicans look after the rich, and Democrats focus on the needs of the middle class. Neither of them looks after the poor.