Steve Hilton Quotes

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.

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

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

No society is healthy when the gap between the rich and the poor is growing.

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.

There's a wealth gap that is happening, and that is all over the world, you know? The rich are getting richer and holding a higher percentage of money or wealth that's out there.

The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider.

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

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

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

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

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

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

We learned many years ago that the rich may have money, but the poor have time.

It's one thing to recognize that the gap between the rich and everybody else is growing like a cancer; it's another thing to come up with useful solutions.

Obama's economic policies widened the gap between the rich and the poor.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. 'Elysium' could be a metaphor for just Jo'burg, but it's also a metaphor for the Third World and the First World. And in science fiction, separation of wealth is a really interesting idea to mess with.

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.

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

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