Richard Ojeda Quotes

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

In a good society, those in the middle and at the bottom ought to benefit significantly from economic growth. When the country prospers, everybody should prosper.

Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!

And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.

I think you can have a Left that isn't culturally conservative talking about lunch-bucket issues.

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

I'm a warrior for the middle class.

President Obama believes that income inequality is one of the most pressing matters facing the nation. If we are going to be a country that provides ladders of opportunity and believes in a thriving middle class, then we have to raise the minimum wage.

This is the middle-class equivalent of raising the minimum wage.

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

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

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

The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that's not their concern.

America's leaders need to put their feet in the shoes of working Americans.

Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.

We cannot run a democracy without a strong middle class.

The most important lesson to take away from allowing the minimum wage and unemployment benefit data to talk is that abstract notions of what is right, good and just should be examined from a concrete, operational point of view. A dose of reality is most edifying.

The best social programs we've had in this country are those that have united the middle class and the poor.

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

The next time you hear me attacked as a socialist - like tomorrow - remember this: I don't believe that government should take over the grocery store down the street or control the means of production. But I believe that the middle class and the working families who produce the wealth of America deserve a fair deal.

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

We need to see the FLSA and the minimum wage as part of a larger struggle to cut poverty and to address the challenge of income inequality.

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.