Today we hear that the gains from economic growth accrue to the highest-income earners while the standard of living of the poor and middle America stagnates and the gap between the richest and the poorest grows ever wider. That portrait of the country is wrong.
Workers are baking the pie of prosperity, but they're not sharing in those dividends. That's unfair.
I really feel kind of guilty spending 80 million dollars. People are starving in the world.
CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.
If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.
The Reagan program is not working because the program is not fair - and, just as important, because the people themselves know it is not fair.
I was able to lean on people for favors and things to help out because their budget was so low. It was half of what John Travolta's perk package is on a film. Our whole budget was half of what his staff makes on a film.
There’s a lot of money to be made in unfairness.
Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.
If you are at the top in entertainment, you earn money that you can never justify to ordinary people doing proper jobs. You can't.
The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.
