Billionaire Quotes - Page 5

• Politically, as a result of Citizens United, billionaires are now able to spend as much money as they want on campaigns, which means that you have a political system which is heavily dominated by corporations and wealthy individuals.

  Bernie Sanders

  Mean, Political, Want

  "Exclusive Interview with Presidential Candidate Senator Bernie Sanders". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

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• If jazz education in our colleges were free to all it would provide thousands of good jobs in the music industry which has been taken over by corrupt millionaires and billionaires.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Taken, College

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• If elected president I will have a litmus test in terms of my nominee to be a Supreme Court justice. And the nominee will say, we are going to overturn this disastrous decision on Citizens United because that decision is undermining American democracy. I do not believe that billionaires should be allowed to buy politicians.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Justice, Decision

  "Face The Nation Transcripts May 10, 2015: Huckabee, Sanders, Gingrich". CBS News "Face The Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. May 10, 2015.

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• There are many major crises facing our country. At the top of the list is the need to overturn Citizens United. If billionaires are able to buy elections and elect right-wing candidates, there is no way we will ever address climate change, college education, affordability, job creation, raising the minimum wage and taking on Wall Street.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Jobs, Wall

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• While Donald Trump was busy with his accountants trying to figure out how to keep living like a billionaire, and all the while he was using his political connections to collect hundreds of millions of dollars in government subsidies and extra tax breaks for his companies. In other words, Trump was taking from America with both hands, and leaving the rest of us with the bill.

  Hillary Clinton

  America, Government, Hands

  Source: time.com

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• Donald Trump has said that his 15 percent rate would apply to all businesses. And if that's the case, billionaire real estate magnets will get a very big tax cut.

  Donald Trump

  Real, Cutting, Bigs

  "President-Elect Trump Plans To Slash Taxes On Businesses - Including His Own". "All Things Considered" with Kelly Mceverth, www.npr.org. November 21, 2016.

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• You go to India and you see the poorest village somewhere in the middle of India. And the poor family is happier than any rich billionaire in this country because of spirituality.

  Marina Abramovic

  Country, Village, India

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• In America, we have a government that is now run by white nationalists, by billionaires, by incredible misogynists.

  Eve Ensler

  Running, Government, White

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• Seasteads cost money, and if you want to succeed as a Seastead you have to find ways to attract people to move there. If I was a billionaire I wouldn't want to move to a seastead, but if I was a member of the bottom billion, most of whom want to leave their dysfunctional governments, I might want to move to a seastead.

  Joe Quirk

  Moving, Government, People

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Basically for everything that comes out of Five Four, I've come up with the idea or changed it in some way. I'm also working with Putnam Accessory Group, a private label hat manufacturer. I'm in the process of re-branding a line they have called Chuck. It was mostly hats and bags, but I'm adding apparel and eyewear and whatever I feel like adding to turn it more into a brand. I'm supposed to be working with Pharrell on Billionaire Boys Club, but that's on hold.

  Mark McNairy

  Boys, Ideas, Groups

  Source: wwd.com

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• There are too many bad policy choices to go into that are being pushed by the Trump Administration, but the relaxation of environmental regulations and corporate and banking regulations alone are enough to keep me busy and should be a big concern for every citizen who isn't a billionaire and likes to breathe air.

  Shepard Fairey

  Choices, Relaxation, Environmental

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Voting

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I've said repeatedly publicly, and other members have, that until you adjust the eligibility for entitlements, do things like raising the age for Medicare for future beneficiaries. Not for those currently receiving or those about to receive. Have serious means testing for high income people. You know Warren Buffett's always complaining about not paying enough taxes. And what I'm complaining about is we're paying for his Medicare. We ought not to be providing these kinds of benefits for millionaires and billionaires.

  Mitch McConnell

  Mean, People, Age

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think the latest estimates were that we have about 250,000 millionaires and billionaires. President Obama wants to increase their taxes 13 percent.

  Joe Walsh

  Thinking, President, Want

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• If you raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires, you'll do nothing to address the debt and the deficit. And the thing you might do is you might finally put this economy over another cliff. These millionaires and billionaires are the folks that try to create jobs and help grow the economy.

  Joe Walsh

  Jobs, Trying, Debt

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• We need to expand Social Security to prevent the looming retirement crisis, and we can do it simply by asking billionaires to pay their fair share.

  Robert Reich

  Retirement, Needs, Asking

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• If we write our laws and design them around the most privileged members of society, i.e., billionaire football team owner, then we forget about the people who don't have the same resources to make an appeal, to fight a wrongful accusation. Those tend to be members of the LGBT community and people of color because those are the people who tend to engage in the work of reappropriation to subvert discrimination. And yet those are the same ones being denied, based on their own identities.

  Simon Tam

  Football, Team, Writing

  Source: www.slate.com

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• The people that are really from the hood - and I'm raising my hand right now, you can't see that - we wanna get out the hood. We don't want to go back. We don't want to gang bang, we don't wanna do none of that. We wanna make it out! Like Jay Z did. We should be billionaires and owning businesses and stuff like that.

  Kevin McCall

  Hands, People, Bangs

  Source: thesource.com

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• The billionaire class fully understands what is at stake. That's why a handful of them are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the current elections. Their goal is not to strengthen the middle class, but continue the trend in which the rich are getting richer at the expense of everyone else.

  Bernie Sanders

  Class, Goal, Dollars

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• What we need to do is pull the rug out so billionaires in our country wake up one morning and say, wow, 80 percent of the country has a solar panel, and we can't make our billions anymore because other people are making millions, but not billions, on alternative energy that doesn't require war. Suddenly, the war-making machinery is not necessary.

  Dar Williams

  Country, Morning, War

  Source: progressive.org

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• The real question is "Why should we make an exception for billionaire politicians?". We should not.

  Tulip Siddiq

  Real, Politician, Should

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• What we need to do is support small and medium-sized businesses, the backbone of our economy, but we have to make sure that every family in this country gets a fair shake... not just for billionaires.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Support, Needs

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I do believe that billionaires and multi-millionaires should be paying more in taxes.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Should, Millionaire

  "Bernie Sanders vs. Business Owner Who Says He Is Being 'Kicked In The Teeth' By Taxes And Regulations" by Tim Hains, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 10, 2017.

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• I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times.

  Mukesh Ambani

  Change, Inspiration, Ambition

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• If your parents are billionaires, that might actually be an obstacle to your own happiness and self-development. If you go to Oxford or Harvard, that might actually thwart your desire to graduate with a science or math degree.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Math, Oxford, Self

  "Hi, I'm Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers and--most recently--David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants. Ask me anything!". Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. June 2, 2014.

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