Charles B. Rangel Quotes

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

Income inequity has to be addressed.

The biggest single challenge to America and our future is income inequality. We've got to fix it.

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.

In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.

I must say that I do wrestle with the amount of money I make, but at the end of the day what am I gonna say? I took less money so Rupert Murdoch could have more?

Middle class families should not be forced to scrape by with less while oil companies get away with more.

Many of my friends and family are scratching it out somewhere decidedly south of the ever widening gap between the haves and have nots, looking at losing their homes, colleges they can't afford and healthcare they can't avail themselves of.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.

I don't want there to be this separation between the rich and poor. I may be part of the three percent because I've been fortunate and done well for myself, but I will never forget about the 97 percent. That was me growing up. I was so poor I dreamt about being just 'regular poor,' not 'poor, poor.'

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

Never forget that there are rich people in poor countries and poor people in rich countries.

In a morally adjusted economy ... the rich should not get richer if the poor get poorer.

What does peace mean in a world in which the combined wealth of the world's 587 billionaires exceeds the combined gross domestic product of the world's 135 poorest countries?

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

This country is very good at creating wealth, but not very good at distributing it.

There is growing inequality. The families of the all-powerful Ministers are getting richer. The poor and hard-working Belizeans are getting poorer.

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.

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.

The Obama economy is great for rich people. It's terrible for everybody else.

Americans shouldn't have to hold down two or three jobs to make ends meet.