Nick Hanauer No matter how wealthy a few plutocrats get, we can never drive a great national economy. Only a thriving middle class can do that. – Nick Hanauer Class Quotes Drive Quotes Economy Quotes Matter Quotes Middle Quotes National Quotes Plutocrats Quotes Thriving Quotes Wealthy Quotes The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense. We plutocrats need to get this trickle-down economics thing behind us: this idea that the better we do, the better everyone else will do. It’s not true. How could it be? I earn 1,000 times the median wage, but I do not buy 1,000 times as much stuff, do I?
John Lee Hancock I got an English degree in college and then went to law school because I didn’t know what else to do. I was a lawyer in Houston, Texas. I started writing plays and screenplays, and after about three years of practicing, I decided I would move to Los Angeles and give it a shot. – John Lee Hancock
Matthew Hayden One of the things that I miss the most about cricket and batting in particular is that meditation of cricket, that involvement of myself – mind, body and spirit – to delivering that one specific process, which is to execute a cricket shot. It is a beautiful feeling; it is very hard to replicate. – Matthew Hayden
Michael Jackson If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with. – Michael Jackson
John Bruton If the EU and the US can cooperate successfully on regulating financial markets, everyone else will follow. – John Bruton
Sean Strickland I grew up in a middle-class household. We had doors and we weren’t white trash. – Sean Strickland
Emily Browning I’m a very private person. I find it very daunting to have to give private parts of myself away to people, you know? – Emily Browning
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