Stormy Daniels Quotes

I believe that capitalism is the one thing in this world that's brought people out of poverty.

You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream.

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.

In the capitalist society there is a place and bread for all. Its ability to expand provides sustenance for every worker. Permanent unemployment is not a feature of free capitalism.

California Democrats are out to kill the American dream by ridiculing the commitment to hard work.

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike. I know that because I don't come from a wealthy background.

I feel sometimes that there's this sense that people are poor because they want to be, or they're working-class because they want to be or because they don't work hard enough. I feel like there's this demonization of working people in general, but specifically definitely labor union members.

Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious?

I ain't a Communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life.

People who work make the world live better and to reward these people well is normal. Yet they are not the people who are the wealthiest.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

It’s no surprise that a global economy creates a global class conflict…. All markets create classes and class conflicts.

The division of society into the producing and non-producing classes ... capital and labor.... Antagonism and opposition of interest is introduced in the community; capital and labor stand opposed.

I think the defining issue of our time is: Does the economic, social, and political system work for the middle class?

It [industrial capitalism] came to be believed in as a gospel, ... from which it was regarded as little short of immoral to depart.

Capitalism had been more revolutionary than any previous social system. It had swept away without scruples old institutions and modes of thought, if they were found to stand in its way.

Unless you’re at the very top, you need a more equitable economy.

It would be well for those interested to reflect whether there now exists, or ever has existed, a wealthy and civilized community in which one portion did not live on the labor of another.... Remember that labor is the only source of wealth, and how small a portion of it, in all old and civilized countries, even the best governed, is left to those by whose labor wealth is created.

Present day American capitalism—for all our misgivings about it—at least leaves room for free institutions to flower and survive.

Despite the miracles of capitalism, it doesn't do well in popularity polls. One of the reasons is that capitalism is always evaluated against the non-existent, non-realizable utopias of socialism or communism. Any earthly system, when compared to a Utopia will pale in comparison. But for the ordinary person, capitalism, with all of its warts, is superior to any system yet devised to deal with our everyday needs and desires.

I'm not running from the left; I'm running from the bottom. I'm running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.

The people who talk about the middle class aren't upholding their interests in the legislature.

There is no question that we, as a country, need to deal with economic inequality across the country, and we need to make sure we have good-paying jobs for everyone.

Capitalism - for the record - has lifted more people out of poverty than any other economic system in the world.

In the old 20th-century income distribution system, the shares of income going to capital, mainly in profits, and labor, in wages and non-wage benefits, were roughly stable. But that system is no more.