Tim Kaine Quotes

The American dream is under assault.

Everybody aspires to an affordable home, a secure job, better living standards, reliable healthcare and a decent pension. My generation took those things for granted, and so should future generations.

As income inequality increases, social mobility falls.

Like Venice’s oligarchs, America’s super-rich are destroying the social mobility that creates wealth.

The Great Gatsby Curve

The burning issue of our time is the growing inequality in income and wealth in our country.

I'm somewhat of a socialist in the sense that I believe in housing for the homeless and medical care for all. So, for me, the American dream has been having a TV show, and being successful and having a nice house and having everything.

I've lived the American Dream, but, sadly, for too many, the American Dream is fading.

There's no future in being poor.

You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream.

I'm not a Mike Bloomberg billionaire.

I am working hard to ensure that working families can continue to afford to live in our city.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.

I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.

I love Romney. It is not his fault that he is the son of a successful governor and makes $20 million a year.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

Johannesburg is weird, because half of it is like Los Angeles. It feels like just wealthy parts of L.A. But half of it is severe slummy, something like Rio De Janiero or something. So it's kind of weird, because it's both happening at the same time.

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy.