Redistribute Quotes

#1. Climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world's wealth.

Ottmar Edenhofer

#2. Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.

Henry Hazlitt

#3. Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself.

P. J. O'Rourke

#4. Here in America, government began as a tool to assure freedom. It gradually turned into a hideously expensive political toy designed to redistribute your wealth and control most aspects of your business and private life.

Mark Skousen

#5. Because you can't redistribute anything to anybody if it's not created by somebody in the first place,

Lawrence Reed

#6. Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.

Donald Berwick

#7. Barack Obama's enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama's enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take, using the power and the force of the federal government to do it.

Rush Limbaugh

#8. For only through assiduous repetition is it possible to redistribute skewed tendencies.

Haruki Murakami

#9. The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years.

Neal Boortz

#10. Whatever happened to Warren Buffett, the world's their-richest man? Guilt, a feeling of being blessed by luck, forgotten lessons - who knows? In any case, Buffett now believe that government should redistribute the wealth earned by others to those who did not earn it.

Larry Elder

#11. Man's envy is at its most intense where all are almost equal; his calls for redistribution are loudest when there is virtually nothing to redistribute.

Helmut Schoeck

#12. Would-be income guarantors ignore or despise the capitalistic system that makes their dreams dreamable and gives their redistribute-the-income proposals whatever plausibility they have.

Henry Hazlitt

#13. Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

Ayn Rand

#14. To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.

Gore Vidal

#15. What immigration really does is redistribute wealth away from workers toward employers.

George J. Borjas

#16. The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.

Garet Garrett

#17. It's time to create an Economic Growth Code whose purpose is to fix and grow the economy, not redistribute massive amounts of wealth.

Ari Fleischer

#18. You could increase farmworker wages significantly and not change the price to the consumer at all - for instance, if you redistribute how revenue is paid out across the food chain. Labor costs, particularly farm labor, is a tiny portion of the price we pay at the supermarket.

Anna Lappe

#19. I think there are people in this Congress who actually believe that government does not have a benign role in the lives of the people, except as an engine to redistribute the wealth of the Nation upwards.

Dennis Kucinich

#20. But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy ... One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy any more.

Ottmar Edenhofer

#21. If poor people can vote, one of the main things they vote for is to redistribute money to themselves.

Scott Aaronson

#22. One needs to redistribute and restructure expenditures in favour of infrastructure, education and so on. Such military expenditures are heavy to carry.

Anton Siluanov

#23. It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.

Arthur H. Vandenberg

#24. The only things government can do are regulate and redistribute, prohibit and penalize, confiscate and command. Are these the things that liberty is made of? Somebody else's money and an endless list of Thou Shalt Nots?

James Bovard

#25. O.K., if the desire to knock America off its pedestal, to redistribute American income to other countries, to shrink America's footprint in the world, makes you anti-American, then Obama is in fact anti-American.

Dinesh D'Souza

#26. The best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth downward, as poorer people tend to spend a higher proportion of their income.

Ha-Joon Chang

#27. I played football all my life throughout high school and ran track.

Matt Cohen

#28. I didn't know it then, but my persistence, perseverance, and unwillingness to accept defeat when things looked all but hopeless were part of the very character traits I would need to make it through World War II alive.

Louis Zamperini

#29. Stress is caused by our resistance to what already is. Even our difficulties we need to accept. My greatest wish is to do God's will.

Dorothy Maclean

#30. Passion is the great mover and spring of the soul. When men's passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects; but they are then also apt to fall into the greatest miscarriages.

Thomas Sprat

#31. Human beings are interested in the human condition.

William Boyd

#32. Real poverty is about doing what you have to do as opposed to what you want.

Lionel Shriver

#33. In all my eleven years of itinerant ministry I cannot recall any growing church which does not encourage small groups

Eddie Gibbs

#34. Until 1985, when my lab found the protein they are made of, aquaporins hadn't yet been identified. There had been a controversy in biology for more than 100 years about how water moved through cells.

Peter Agre

#35. I feel like a cup of tea with no milk. I just had one. It was disgusting.

Paul Colman

#36. Being all about me is not a good thing - I don't care what 1978 tried to say - because as long as you mostly think about yourself, you're not going to be a wonderful person. You're just not.

Tracy McMillan

#37. Gratitude should run through our veins, it should reside in us, it should live in our bones as long we live.

Euginia Herlihy

#38. America doesn't have an abortion problem - it has an unwanted pregnancy problem, and an abortion symptom.

John Fugelsang

#39. Time management is the major difference between the rich and poor

Sunday Adelaja

#40. Could there be three other words in the English language more effective at striking terror deep within the heart than Got a minute?

Meg Cabot

#41. Love of consciousness evokes the same in response
Love of feeling evokes the opposite
Love of body depends only on type and polarity.

G.I. Gurdjieff