Quotes about "Money & Wealth"

The Koch brothers, through the expenditure of billions of dollars and the creation and support of dozens of extreme right organizations, have taken fringe extremist ideas and made them mainstream within the Republican Party. ”

It has become clear that the function of a private health insurance is to make as much money as possible. Every dollar not paid out in claims is another dollar made in profits for the company. ”

Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, the elderly, the poor - or will the extraordinary power of billionaire campaign contributors and Big Money prevail? The American people, by the millions, must send Congress the answer to that question. ”

It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration. ”

Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs. ”

Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years. ”

There must be a major economic recovery package which puts Americans to work at decent wages. ”

Good environmental policy is good economic policy. ”

The private sector enjoys tremendous freedom in the U.S, as it should. With freedom, however, comes responsibilities. ”

My first introduction to South Africa's struggle for freedom came when I was just 17. I had volunteered to speak in my mother's stead at a United Nations forum on South Africa because she was unable to attend on that occasion. ”