Elizabeth Warren Quotes

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

The messenger matters. When people of modest means complain about inequality, it usually gets written off as class warfare, but when billionaires complain, the problem is redefined.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

I agree that income disparity is the great issue of our time. It is even broader and more difficult than the civil rights issues of the 1960s. The '99 percent' is not just a slogan. The disparity in income has left the middle class with lowered, not rising, income, and the poor unable to reach the middle class.

It says anybody can make it, because we're all on a level playing field. But we're not on a level playing field. That 's precisely the point, and that's what the rich don't want to look at. They don't want to recognize that they're not producing wealth at all. They're hoarding wealth. That's different.

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.

The most powerful forces in economics are not numbers or facts. They are prejudices and preferences. No amount of evidence will ever change the degree to which many of the rich and powerful prefer themselves to be richer and more powerful and others poorer and weaker.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money.

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

An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers

Elites always tell poor people, “Work hard and play by the rules.”

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.

Economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege

There are two Americas. One which influences government and economic policy and the other which must live with the results.

If work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

The "have nots" outnumber the "haves." No wonder the ruling class of every country grows more and more alarmed.

America is like a melting pot. The people at the bottom get burned, and the scum floats to the top.