Jack Kemp Quotes

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

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.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable; it's not morally right; it's just not going to happen.

The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich.

If you are poor today, you will always be poor. Only the rich now acquire riches.

We have two American flags always; one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it, it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it, it means danger, revolution.

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

We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

The rich are staying in school, and the poor are being drafted. I can't live with that.

Growing richer every day, for as rich and poor are relative terms, when the rich are growing poor, it is pretty much the same as if the poor were growing rich. Nobody is poor when the distinction between rich and poor is destroyed.

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

You'll notice that for many progressives, taking from the rich is not simply a necessity of budgeting but a moral imperative and a tool to institute fairness that capitalism supposedly hasn't.

I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart.

Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

Share the Wealth

Redistribution of wealth has rarely been from the rich to the poor. Usually it is from the poor and middle class to the rich.

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

The needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich

The best social programs we've had in this country are those that have united the middle class and the poor.

In a morally adjusted economy ... the rich should not get richer if the poor get poorer.

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.