Richard Ojeda Quotes

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.

The biggest problem is that the rich people paying the bills do not share the same goals as the poor people they are trying to help. The wealthy have weak incentives to get the right amount of the right thing to those who need it; the poor are in no position to complain if they don’t.

We oppose monopoly, the tendency of which is to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

One must denounce the economic, financial, and social mechanisms and structures that are manipulated by the rich and powerful for their own benefit at the expense of the poor

In the United States you have socialism for the rich and free markets for the poor.

The rich have all the speech they want; the poor have lockjaw.

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

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

The poor are little folks living on little lands who want what we already have.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

In America, the top 1 percent led the country into war and economic devastation, leaving the less fortunate to fight for one and pay for both.

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

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