Bill de Blasio Quotes

Prosperity isn't something that squirts out of rich people.

I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.

Socialists will often talk as if some form of superbly equalized destitution were preferable to "maldistributed" plenty. A national income that is rapidly growing in absolute terms for practically everyone will be deplored because it is making the rich richer.

This is not to say that the government should confiscate from the "haves" and bestow upon the "have-nots", beyond the requirements of a compassionate welfare program to provide for those who cannot provide for themselves. Far from it. But it is to say that our duty is to foster a strong, vibrant wealth-producing economy which operates in such a way that new additions to wealth accrue to those who presently have little or no ownership stake in their country.

You campaigned against rich people and you got enough envy whipped up in the country and you're gonna get 'em. You're gonna stick it to those rich people. But guess what? You may not get anymore revenue. You may not get anymore economic growth. But you can say, 'I stuck it to the rich people.'

I wish the city of San Francisco, bastion of liberalism, were more innovative when it comes to how to spread the wealth.

I say I don't need a tax cut. It will not do me any more good. I can't buy more, I can't eat more, I can't do more, and I want it distributed among the ordinary people who work every day.

Haiti's economy cannot be built by and benefit just a privileged few. It must be built by and benefit all Haitians.

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

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

The tax program is based upon a broad and just social and economic purpose ... not to destroy wealth, but to create a broader range of opportunity, to restrain the growth of unwholesome and sterile accumulations.

It's not class warfare to talk about fairness.

How do we make sure that rising tides lift all boats and not just the yachts?

Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea.

As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together.

Economic mobility will fix income inequality.

Money is like manure. It's most effective when it's spread around widely.

We need a budget that will foster economic growth for all of our people, and we need to make taxes more simple and fair for working families - not give handouts to the rich.

The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down to the rest of us. The second theory was the theory that if we make the average of mankind comfortable and secure, their prosperity will rise upward through the ranks.

It may at first appear strange, but I believe it is true, that I cannot by means of money raise a poor man and enable him to live much better than he did before, without proportionably depressing others in the same class.

If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It tries to balance out.

Let there be no mistake, Sen Sanders, his campaign and the vigorous debate that we've had about how to raise incomes, how to reduce inequality, increase upward mobility, has been very good for the Democratic Party and for America.

The trick is figuring out how do we structure government systems that pool resources, and hence facilitate some [wealth] redistribution, because I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level, to make sure that everybody's got a shot.