William J. H. Boetcker Quotes

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

The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich.

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 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.

Hunger, the inseparable companion of the poor, is the offspring of the unequal distribution of the wealth and the injustices in this world. The rich do not know hunger.

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

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

The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.

I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.

Growing richer every day, for as rich and poor are relative terms, when the rich are growing poor, it is pretty much the same as if the poor were growing rich. Nobody is poor when the distinction between rich and poor is destroyed.

But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.

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 needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich

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

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

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

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 greatest issue before the people—the question of special privilege and unequal distribution of wealth.

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

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

In my view, there is no justice when the 15 wealthiest people in this country in the last two years, saw their wealth increase by $170 billion. That is more wealth acquired in a two year period than is owned by the bottom 130 million Americans.

They talk about income inequality. I’m for income inequality.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.