Wealthiest Quotes

The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush`s wealthiest donors. But hardworking Americans will see through this president`s efforts to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon.

I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever `cause he believed in God.

Simply cutting the taxes for America`s wealthiest families is clearly not creating the needed new jobs, and that strategy is unlikely to succeed in the future.

Waiting. Waiting. What would you do if your family was starving and you saw people dying in the streets? `Love thy neighbor.` Didn`t I read that somewhere? The real war is not in Iraq, but right here in America. It`s the War on Poverty, and it`s a war that`s been ignored and lost. An estimated 37 million Americans are living in poverty. New Orleans is one of the poorest cities in the country, with 40 percent of its children living in poverty. Mississippi has the highest poverty rate of any state. We`ve repeatedly given tax cuts to the wealthiest and left our most vulnerable American citizens to basically fend for themselves.

We are the most powerful nation in the world, but we`re not the only nation in the world. We are not the only people in the world. We are an important people, the wealthiest, the most powerful and, to a great extent, generous. But we are part of the world.

Sadly, the President`s budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country`s severe fiscal problems.

So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, `Where is faith being put into action here?`

The Republicans are looking after the financial interests of the wealthiest individuals in this country.

While the wealthiest families completely benefit from the tax cuts targeted towards the upper brackets, middle-income families were hit with the unwelcome surprise of higher taxes on tax day.

At one time in Pittsburgh, when Rachel Mellon Walton`s father and grandfather were creating wealth, Pittsburgh was probably the wealthiest area in the country, like Silicon Valley and Seattle now.