Wealthy Quotes

A nobleman is Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life. - Ambrose Bierce

A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. - Ernest Hemingway

[The confident, Harvard-trained lawyer who became wealthy arguing cases before the Supreme Court also declined to express regret for certain memos he wrote as a young, wise-cracking counsel to the Reagan administration. At one point, Kennedy told Roberts that his writings on voting rights lacked an appreciation for problems related to racial discrimination.] I'm deeply troubled by a narrow and cramped and perhaps even a mean-spirited view of the law that appears in some of your writings, ... you have not accurately represented my position. - Edward Kennedy

[Steven Brill, an attorney and author of a book on the aftermath of Sept. 11, says Feinberg's chart was certain to offend all families, regardless of income.] At the same time that some of the wealthy families are angry at him, the poor families are angry at him too... 'How dare Ken Feinberg do that? How dare someone put a value on human life that says that my husband and the father of my children is worth one-tenth of what this other person is worth?' - Steven Brill

[Some of the lands held by Muslims were wealthy. Tariq Ali, the author of] The Book of Saladin... Nothing is ever motivated purely by religion or ideology. They wanted the money. It was as simple as that. - Godfrey Of Bouillon

[It's a matter of] fundamental fairness... Why should working people making $35,000 a year be paying for wealthy people who make $100,000 to get Medicare? - Trent Lott

[Bush's priority is redistributing money from the bottom up, Herbert says. It's a harsh criticism, but some of the facts support Herbert's claim.] One of the first things the president did in the aftermath of Katrina was to poke his finger in the eyes of struggling workers by suspending the requirements of the Davis-Bacon Act, ... This is one more way of taking money from the working poor and handing it to the wealthy. A construction laborer in New Orleans who would ordinarily be paid about $9 an hour, the prevailing wage in the city, can now be paid less. So much for the president's commitment to fighting poverty. - Bob Herbert