Ken Salazar Quotes

Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you.

I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.

Income inequality has become so prevalent in the U.S. that examples of its negative impact on the middle class are as common as Kanye West saying something cringeworthy in the media.

Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor

Growing up I always felt like I was living on the other side of the tracks. I knew the people on the other side had more resources, more money, happier families.

When someone can't afford to wear shoes, it's not just about them not having shoes on that day. It's about a cycle of poverty that exists within their community.

Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

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

The middle class of this country, our historic backbone and our best hope for a strong society in the future, is losing its place at the table.

There’s been an economic war going on in this country and the middle class and the poor have been losing..

We cannot continue to have the upper class wealty getting richer and richer, the middle class shrinking and 43 million living in poverty.

Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead.

I do think that there is both a very powerful sense of entitlement and a kind of bubble of wealth which makes it hard for the people at the very top to understand the travails of the middle class.

I agree that income disparity is the great issue of our time. It is even broader and more difficult than the civil rights issues of the 1960s. The '99 percent' is not just a slogan. The disparity in income has left the middle class with lowered, not rising, income, and the poor unable to reach the middle class.

Nobody talks about the poor. Everybody talks about the middle class and just kinda want to ignore that the poor exist. And you cannot ignore that they exist if you want to help them.

If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise.

We need to truly understand what economic injustice and inequality looks like for hard-working Canadians grappling with it every day on the ground, at home and at work.

I have way more experience being poor than I do having money.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic wellbeing is deteriorating.

Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.