Donald Trump Quotes

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.

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.

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

For a number of years, I've wondered if people like us are the forgotten. We're not the poor, and we're not the rich. We're not the very young or the aged. We're the average American family.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

A poor man is a man who has not got much money. This may seem a simple and unnecessary description, but in the face of a great mass of modern fact and fiction, it seems very necessary indeed; most of our realists and sociologists talk about a poor man as if he were an octopus or an alligator.

There are no great lords who possess everything and a herd of people who have nothing

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

If Eleanor Roosevelt has her way, how are we going to tell the rich from the poor?

I come from the poor people, and I have been here working my whole stinkin' career for people who don't have a chance, and I really resent anybody that says I'm doing it for the rich. Give me a break.

Everybody wants to talk about black and white, when the situation is really about rich people against poor people.

I don't think that the rich should be attacked. There's nothing wrong in being rich.

The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.

I think America has dealt with - I mean, this is simplistic, and of course I don't live in America - but the impression I get is that there is not a kind of obligation to dislike those who are better off or be frightened of those who are worse off.

Reagan's approach will achieve one of the basic goals of the conservative: Things remain basically the same. The rich stay rich and the poor stay poor, or even a little poorer.

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.

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.