Thomas S. Foley Quotes

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

The superrich should pay higher taxes in order to restore the inclusive society that I grew up in.

We’ve taken care not to penalize the wealthy but we have to redistribute some income …It is through reform that we can obtain fairness in the modern world…A reformed welfare state is the only way to obtain social justice.

I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

There is a legitimate concern about wealth distribution in the United States, but the answer is not to scapegoat any individual who makes over $200,000 per year and to try to sell the fraud that the government can equitably take the money of those who have earned it and give it to those who haven't.

Government has got to work for all of us and not just for a few billionaires..

There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.

Labour’s message then is this: we believe in a strong economy; we believe also in a fair go for all, not just for some.

To be concerned about inequality is not engaging in class warfare.

Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea.

It's not class warfare to suggest that we shouldn't look to seniors and the less fortunate to bear the brunt of deficit reduction. I believe America needs to understand there needs to be a sense of fairness.

It's the middle class; it's middle Ireland, and it's a group of people who often feel that they contribute a lot to the economy and a lot to society, but maybe they don't get as much back for it as they should.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

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

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

Conservatives believe the economy functions better if the rich have more money and everyone else has less. But they're wrong. It's just the opposite.

If we're not going to tax the rich anymore, we're going to create class warfare.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

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

A strong economy is perfectly consistent with concern for equity and economic justice.

Fair Shares for All, is Labour's Call

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