On Putin's order, corrupt apparatchiks and crony oligarchs rob Russians of their nation's wealth and resources.
John McCain
WealthNationResourcesCorruptRob
The crusade to convince us that global warming can only be dealt with by wealth destruction and higher energy prices began with an effort to 'raise awareness,' which turned into some delicate nanny-state prodding before efforts to artificially inflate prices.
David Harsanyi
EffortEnergyWealthAwarenessDealt
When we are not extracting wealth from nature, we are extracting it from the working and middle classes.
Anohni
NatureWealthWorkingMiddleClasses
Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.
Ferdinand Lassalle
CultureWealthLaborSource
If we wait until income inequality is much more severe, we will have a whole class of new superrich who will probably feel entitled to their wealth and will have the means to defend their interest. That's already gone far enough. We shouldn't let it become more extreme.
Robert J. Shiller
WaitFeelEnoughWealthInequality
It is harder to explain why free markets create wealth than it is to pander to workers who have been displaced by global competition.
Charlie Sykes
CompetitionFreeWealthCreateWhy
On my reservation, we had one of the most abundant fisheries in the world and hundreds of thousands of acres of wild rice beds. We've lost a lot of it, but there's still natural wealth that could support our communities.
Winona LaDuke
SupportWorldWealthLostWildRice
Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.
Abu Bakar Bashir
WealthOilWeakCurseUsBeen
We love wealth, and we hate poor people. I know people who work in TV news who have actually been told to do stand-ups rather than put interviews with poor people on the air. We physically don't want to look at them.
Matt Taibbi
WorkLoveHatePeopleWealthLook
It's morally wrong, and economically self-defeating, that so much wealth flows upwards towards the richest of Americans, while millions work full time but still can't provide for their families.
Charles B. Rangel
WorkTimeWealthWrongStillMuch
We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody.
William Weld
WealthSituationIndustryAbsolutely
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Edmund Burke
MoneyFreeRichWealthPoorUs
We have a wealth of talent in the Republican Party.
Jeb Bush
TalentWealthPartyRepublican
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
Billy Graham
CharacterHealthWealthLostNothing
If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value.
William Greider
ValueWealthWillInflationEven
An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.
Edmund Phelps
FocusPenWealthResultsEmployment
Ability is a poor man's wealth.
John Wooden
ManWealthPoorAbility
I have always felt intuitively that somehow such wealth cannot be the privy of any one person or any one family.
Azim Premji
FamilyWealthPersonAlwaysCannot
I had the notion that, OK, so now we have all of this wealth, we could buy not only one expensive car, we could buy all of them. As soon as you realize that you could buy all of them, then none of them are particularly interesting or satisfying.
Pierre Omidyar
CarInterestingYouWealthNowBuy
This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.
Barack Obama
GrowthMomentWealthBuildWill
Our wise men flattered us into the adoption of the banking system under the idea that boundless wealth would result from the adoption.
John Tyler
MenWiseResultWealthWise MenUs
I think Matt Yglesias is wrong to declare that the world of 'This Town' is dying, unless he thinks publicly financed elections, strict lobbying bans and Scandinavian-style wealth distribution are imminent.
Alex Pareene
WorldThinkWealthWrongDyingHe
If somebody has an extreme amount of wealth and is not using it for some good purpose, only for their own enjoyment or satisfaction, then clearly there's a moral failing in the world in which we live.
Peter Singer
GoodLivePurposeWorldWealthOwn
There is a wealth of readership for regional language literature in India that is not given importance. We must give respect to our own languages.
Amish Tripathi
RespectLanguageLiteratureWealth
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