Ed Schultz Quotes

What is called sound economics is very often what mirrors the needs of the respectably affluent.

I don't think that the rich should be attacked. There's nothing wrong in being rich.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

The issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

There are only two families in the whole world, my old grandmother used to say, The Haves and the Have-Nots.

In every country, and under every government, particular men may be too rich.

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

'Mr. Robot,' in particular, signals the rise of a fresh post-Occupy portrayal of the wealth gap. No longer is the story of income inequity delivered via a well-meaning, crushingly earnest indie film by John Sayles or in a single laugh line on 'Roseanne.'

No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth.

I'm not going to do class warfare; I want to be wealthy.

If only the majority of the wealthiest top 10 percent of Americans own stock directly - which does not include pension and retirement accounts - then the divide between rich and poor is likely to expand.

In the United States, it is all about money: those who have it and those who don't.

The rich are different than you and me: they have more money and they have more power.

I identify with the bottom of the pyramid, because, outside of having money, I am at the bottom of the pyramid.

The rich are different from us.

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / Thats how it goes / Everybody knows.

In America, we have freedom of choice. But some are free to choose between Lamborghini and Rolls Royce while others are free to choose which dumpster they're going to have their meal out of next. Some are free to choose which, you know, homes and farms to foreclosed on, while others choose which bridge they're going to sleep under tonight.

There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.