Corrine Brown Quotes

It is rather a shame for a rich country like ours ... that it should allow those who have toiled all their days to end in penury and possible starvation.

Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased?

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

I am in favor of reducing all budget items. But the item I don't want to reduce is the pension expenditure because it affects the weakest part of society.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.

We live in a world in which we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots.

I've seen it with my own eyes: When government takes money from the poor and the middle class, everyone suffers.

I was once a welfare recipient and am very aware of the successes and failures of this critical safety net. There are those that would have us believe that those receiving TANF benefits are lazy, shiftless, freeloaders who are just sitting around thinking of another way to suckle from the government teat.

If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

Social Security is a problem solving program, not a problem creating one .... Social Security is our best anti-poverty program.

The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich.

There are corporations worth billions of dollars—and hundreds of thousands of people who don't get to eat.

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

We cannot continue to have the upper class wealty getting richer and richer, the middle class shrinking and 43 million living in poverty.

I have to address the economic conditions of everybody, including, and perhaps first, those who are poor.

Most Americans get that there is a need for a safety net in our country, and we support that safety net.

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

There is no excuse for inaction in the face of economic injustice.

For all the obsession in Washington and in college faculty lounges over income inequality, why isn't there more outrage over government policies that exacerbate the problem? There are hundreds of programs that make the poor poorer and increase poverty in America.

In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works a full time job should have to live in poverty. That's a fundamental value proposition, an article of faith in our country that I know an overwhelming majority of Americans agree on.

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.