Financial Justice Quotes

Share the Wealth

I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

Will you stand by it now, or will you let the Shylocks come and have their way? It is for you to determine.

We must ensure the economy really works for all, to address unconscionable wealth and income disparities that allow access to opportunity for some over others.

I want to get paid for doing my job and whoever don't like it or whoever don't give me my just due then that's on them.

Mike Tyson has been given every penny he has coming.

Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other right.

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not attempt to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.