#billionaire

Our parents and grandparents understood this truth deeply. They believed - as we do - that to create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments: educating, innovating and rebuilding for our children's future. Building an economy to last, from the middle class up, not from the billionaires down. ↗

— Martin O'Malley

#billionaires #building #children #class #create

If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship. ↗

— Barack Obama

#billions #break #breaks #choose #college

A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes. ↗

— Hugh Sidey

#american family #architects #assembled #athletes #billionaires

There were 14,000 people at the rally for the president in Ohio. There were another 8,000 people in Virginia. If all 22,000 of those people opened their wallets and gave $1,000 each, that would be less than one donation from a billionaire to the super PACs. And that's why he's in for the fight of his life. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#billionaire #donation #each #fight #gave

The main obstacle to further progress on the resource curse is China, and to a lesser extent India. ↗

— George Soros

#control #government #greed #power #age

I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#boss #i #looking #me #selfish

During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period of hardship for billionaires. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#average people #bailouts #billionaires #crisis #during

When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes. ↗

— Ernie Banks

#feel #i #i feel #i feel like #like

Buffett does enjoy being a billionaire, but in offbeat ways. As he put it, though money cannot change your health or how many people love you, it lets you be in 'more interesting environments. ↗

— Roger Lowenstein

#money #philosophy #warren-buffett #change

As a former lifelong Republican, it pains me to tell you that today's Republicans - and their standard-bearers, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan - just aren't up to the task. They're beholden to 'my way or the highway' bullies, indebted to billionaires who bankroll ads and allergic to the very idea of compromise. ↗

— Charlie Crist

#allergic #beholden #billionaires #bullies #compromise