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We have to ask the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share again. Their incomes went up in the 1980s and their taxes went down. We can't ask the middle class to pay more; their incomes went down and their taxes went up.

Bill Clinton

I think of the present digital/IT evolution happening in the global industry as the most exciting period I have ever witnessed. And somehow new ways of distribution will come into play but let's start with reopening the Chauvel for the independent filmmakers of Sydney and Australia. In the wealthiest city in Australia, can't we raise $250,000 or so to keep our film culture alive?

Frank Shields

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.

Tim Johnson

You have given the wealthiest [portion] of the population a break, and now you are coming before the American people and saying, 'We don't have enough money to protect the sick and the old.

Bernie Sanders

Is just a handout to some of the state's wealthiest residents.

Dan Walters

For people to walk in feces in the wealthiest country in the world is an abomination -- for whatever reason, ... When the tsunami hit, we got there in 48 hours, yet it took days to get to New Orleans. What does that say?

James Harris

Wisconsin has historically done great things because we felt we were all in it together. But our economic growth is becoming more and more concentrated on our wealthiest families. Wisconsin's legacy of equality is in serious trouble when we lose this feeling.

Joel Rogers

This group of 60-year-olds is probably the healthiest and wealthiest group of so-called retirees ever.

John Orgren

The Census provides highs that are too low and lows that are too high. In effect, the Census income estimates artificially reduce the gap between the wealthiest and poorest Connecticut towns.

Wayne Villemez

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.

Carl Levin

Although Palm Beach's wealthiest residents may not even notice property tax hikes from one year to the next, there are thousands of middle-income working families who will, ... And as California's ruling elite discovered when the late Howard Jarvis began his campaign to pass Proposition 13, it would be a mistake to ignore them.

Robert Mcclure

Our plan will allow Reader's Digest to deepen the relationship we have with millions of customers who are 50 and older - the fastest growing and wealthiest demographic -- and to attract new customers to a range of new products under the Reader's Digest brand.

Thomas Ryder

On this budget, we have the starkest choice we've had in a long time -- tax cuts for the wealthiest versus food stamps and Medicaid.

Jim Wallis

Investors fail to appreciate is that this is one of Li's companies. Having one of the wealthiest and most influential men in China owning your company carries a lot of weight.

Jason Brueschke

I think, cynically, some people thought that John du Pont, who is the wealthiest murder defendant in the United States, would use his financial resources to ensure that he never stood trial at all.

Patrick Meehan

This market is one of the wealthiest in the nation.

Alan Hunter

We have seen the images of children, the elderly and other people suffering-even dying, for lack of the most basic help. Surely in the wealthiest country on earth, we can find a way to get basic necessities like water to those in need, and get them to safety quickly, if there is really a will from our nation and government.

Maude Hurd

The outpouring of opposition to cuts in services needed by vulnerable families shows that more and more people across the nation want Congress to back the right priorities. People understand that it makes no sense to cut education, nutrition, and other vital services so that the wealthiest among us can receive billions more in tax breaks.

Deborah Weinstein

They took the largest, wealthiest black county and reduced it to a stereotype of a poor, dangerous black neighborhood. And the irony is the neighborhood isn't even a poor black neighborhood.

Peter Shapiro

As I have said before, the ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.

Fidel Castro

I think that idea still holds true. It's important to equalize the playing field. There is no reason why the wealthiest communities should have the best materials all to themselves. Everyone should be able to use those materials.

Joanne Turschman

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.

Carol Carter

It's a market where individuals are coming into their own and making their own decisions as to who they want to be, what they want to buy, what they want to do. It's the time in the life where people are the wealthiest. They don't have a family to support.

David Sze

There's a reason why politicians and the pedagogic establishment keep churning out these lists of new 'how to fix it' plans. It's because they don't dare speak about the central point. It is not that we don't know what works in public education.... All we have to do is go out and visit Glencoe, Ill., Scarsdale, N.Y., or any of the wealthiest districts in California and we find out right away.

Jonathan Kozol

If you look at the actual facts on the ground, they have thousands of more drilling permits in their pockets than they can even drill on. So why is Congress or the administration always looking for ways to exempt the wealthiest companies in the world from their environmental responsibilities?

Dave Alberswerth