George W. Bush Quotes

Davos is where billionaires tell millionairs what middle class people think.

You write about what you have access to, and I have been fortunate enough to have a front-row seat on the rich and powerful my entire life.

In Singapore, there may be 50 old-money families, but you wouldn't know them to look at them.

With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy, notably Melinda Gates, are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men.

'Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.

I would not say that George Bush doesn't care about people at all. I think that his loyalties are to the upper class.

Ann Romney... looked to me like a corporate wife. The stories she told about struggles - eh! It's hard for me to believe. I mean, she's a very rich woman, and I know that, and America knows that.

Rich men belong to another nationality entirely, no matter what their actual nationality happens to be. The nationality of the rich.

If class warfare is being waged in America, my class is clearly winning.

Wealth is a form of power in our society. With great power comes great responsibility. If you have too much wealth, ipso facto, you have too much power -- therefore you have too much responsibility -- and you're a kind of dictator.

I do not like the rich.

In Moscow, if you have money, you're king. If you don't - sorry, man, get lost. I mean, it's like this everywhere. But in Moscow, it's much more hard-core.

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.

We have a new class in this country: the deserving rich. ... The deserving rich do nice things for each other. Comforting the unafflicted is something that comes naturally to them.

I've never known a lot of rich people. It's not my bag.

I'm not a Mike Bloomberg billionaire.

I always wanted so much glamour in my life, so I have always been obsessed with class, and from dating a few people who were from old money and a few from new money in my 20s, I just sort of became obsessed with this idea of clueless rich people.

I understand politicos gotta make bank. But cloistering with the Hollywood elite is not how you prove you're a man of the people.

Look, I am in the establishment because my dad, the greatest man alive was president of the United States and my brother, who I adore as well as fantastic brother was president. Fine, I'll take it. I guess I'm part of the establishment Barbara Bush is my mom. I'll take that, too.

The bourgeois are other people.

I've never felt entirely comfortable in high society. I'm more comfortable talking to the bar staff than the super-rich. I don't really get what makes them tick.

I just think the whole discussion of class is wrong. It's not what we do here in America. I don't think there's anything called 'middle class values' that are different from the values of other people in this country.

There's a difference between being posh and being rich.

I'm in that, I guess, top 2 percent or something.

Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.