#wealthy

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#derived #good #happy #people #powerful

For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#age #children #college #compared #families

I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#affected #afford #aids #been #bit

The inequalities are greater now than in '92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the 'equal level' very low, so that wealthy districts simply raise extra money privately. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#equal #extra #extra money #greater #inequalities

The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts. ↗

— William Weld

#afford #districts #grown #had #lot

There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy. ↗

— Deborah Norville

#dramatic #happiness #part #people #wealthy

While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U.S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our nation's seniors cannot be asked to subsidize the drug costs of other wealthy industrialized nations any longer. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#asked #cannot #continued #costs #development

We have a lot of things we give away to people who are very, very wealthy in this country. And I'm not sure that our federal government can afford that. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#away #country #federal #federal government #give

Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#wealthy #age