Charles B. Rangel Quotes

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

At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

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

Hunger, the inseparable companion of the poor, is the offspring of the unequal distribution of the wealth and the injustices in this world. The rich do not know hunger.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

If you people can’t afford to live in our town, then you’ll just have to leave.

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

You have to be very poor and desperate, or very rich, or lucky, to live in Islington. We don't have the people in the middle, the people who serve the community.

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.

I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.

In Paris, where I live, the inner neighborhoods are only available to the white elite. The poor and dispossessed are shuffled out to suburbs and never seen.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed.

Inequality is on the rise.

The biggest problem is that the rich people paying the bills do not share the same goals as the poor people they are trying to help. The wealthy have weak incentives to get the right amount of the right thing to those who need it; the poor are in no position to complain if they don’t.

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

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

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.

The poor should not have to learn how to be frugal and the rich should not have to learn to be extravagant.

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

In the United States you have socialism for the rich and free markets for the poor.

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.