Gail Bradbrook Quotes

Somehow, failures in the public sector are always judged as systematic. The private sector thus exists to ride to the rescue - and their failures are only judged anomalies. A pretty nice arrangement for investors. The only people who suffer are the citizens.

Reckless capitalism kills black people.

The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

It takes 100 senior citizens to pay for one tax cut for a fat cat.

There’s a mal-distribution in wealth in this country. Entitlements end up going to the rich anyway. Some of them should be attacked. The ones who rip us off, the ones who get bailed out.

The Western capitalist system is sunk to its neck in human problems. Despite the copious wealth that it has at its disposal, it is completely incapable of establishing social justice.

Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.

The malfeasance and misjudgments by our corporate, financial and government leaders, declining ethical standards, and the failure of our new agency society reflect a failure of capitalism.

Year after year we do not get reform as a result of scandals; we simply get more scandals.

Lotteries are a tax on the poor.

There is a profound unfairness embedded in the economic system.

All the measures of government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

… capitalism is being killed by its achievements.

There is a growing distrust of the market and a feeling that Wall Street is a crooked casino where the house always wins. Yes, the game is rigged.

The presumed causes of Americas troubles can be summed up simply: the evils of unlimited competition, and abuses by those with economic power.

This is America. We don’t disparage wealth. We don’t begrudge anybody for achieving success. And we certainly believe that success should be rewarded. But what gets people upset – and rightfully so – are executives being rewarded for failure, especially when those rewards are subsidized by U.S. taxpayers, many of whom are having a tough time themselves.

If class warfare isn’t the richest of the rich fighting tooth and nail against unions and any tax increases while record numbers of people lose their homes, what is?

You couldn't advance in a finance department in this country unless you thought that the world was flat.

To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort, dignity, and personal advance is only a myth, or worse, a bitter mockery.

People have been savaged by a predatory economic and political system, and some are turning to Trump. Unfortunately, Trump is just more of the same.

The Tea Party movement and the Occupy movement were both, in a sense, complaining about the same thing, namely the use of public money to rescue failed banks.

I'm really sick of the 'one percent' that is taking all the money from this country, draining the middle class, making it nonexistent.

It is Cameron's cabinet of millionaires who are the real spongers given free rein to live out their Thatcherite fantasies at the expense of ordinary, decent communities throughout these islands.

Globalization in the aggregate generates wealth, no question. But it gets concentrated.