Rich Quotes

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

As a Republican, I am proud of my party's rich legacy of conservation.

You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

Clinton's pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall.

A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.

The slogan of the moderate Republican Party is this: we are rich, and we are not going to take it any more.

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.

Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

Rich means you have to stay there to maintain it.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates.

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store.

Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part of the world.

Obama is a leveler. He has come to narrow the divide between rich and poor. For him the ultimate social value is fairness. Imposing it upon the American social order is his mission.

I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

I kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian culture is so rich that I think what we are today, culturally, we have a unique position and I don't think one lifetime is enough to encompass it.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.