Billionaire Billions Quotes
“In 1969, there were two billionaires in the United States: J Paul Getty and Howard Hughes, each worth around $1-1.5 billion. In 2021, there are 724 billionaires in the United States” — Grady Booch
“Billionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson are zooming off in their spaceships to outer space. They’re buying $500 million super yachts, and they’re buying mansions with 25 bathrooms, while half of our people live paycheck to paycheck” — Bernie Sanders
“If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars” — J. Paul Getty
“How can you witness billionaires accumulate $10,000,000,000,000 in wealth during an economically catastrophic pandemic and not conclude that the system needs to fundamentally change?” — Robert Reich
“Americans … have been burned enough times on tax deals that carefully protect the tender fannies of billionaires and big oil and other big political donors, while working families just get hammered” — Elizabeth Warren
“I built a great company, one of the – some of the most iconic assets in the world, $10 billion of net worth, more than $10 billion of net worth, and frankly, I had a great time doing it” — Donald Trump
“I was a billionaire for four days. It was a cool feeling, even though you couldn’t do anything with it. We knew it wasn’t ours. We didn’t earn it, so we couldn’t do anything with it. We couldn’t spend it — that would be theft” — Darren James
“Jeff Bezos is worth $182 billion and the fact that he chooses to do everything within his power to keep the 5,800 predominantly Black workers in Alabama from unionizing for humane working conditions proves that he knows he didn’t earn his fortune. He exploited workers for it” — Cori Bush
“The billionaire boom is not a sign of a thriving economy but a symptom of a failing economic system” — Winnie Byanyima
“I know of at least two black women who are billionaires: Sheila Johnson, who co-founded BET, and Oprah Winfrey. And I know of hundreds of black women whose net worth is over $1 million” — A’Lelia Bundles
“A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends. Being an indispensable source of food, shelter, peace, and cultural support dedicatedly spending 9 billion dollars a month on helping people would be a formidable enemy of evil” — Vanna Bonta
“God bless our brave billionaires in these trying times” — Howard Karger
“The only chance we’ve got is if those families will turn back to their government and say, ‘I demand that you work for me, not for the billionaires, not for the millionaires. That you work for me.’” — Elizabeth Warren
“Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it?” — Rupert Murdoch
“You made that money off of the backs of undocumented people, you made that money off of the backs of black and brown people being paid under a living wage, you made that money off of the backs of single mothers. No one ever makes a billion dollars. You take a billion dollars” — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
“The working class does not need billionaires” — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
“I don’t think billionaires should concentrate wealth while employing people who are sleeping in cars working a zillion hours to survive” — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
“When billionaires can give $50 million, $500 million to a campaign, and there’s no limit, then it makes a mockery of ‘one man, one vote'” — George Takei
“The decisions of the Supreme Court have left the American people a status quo in which one side’s billionaires are pitted against the other side’s billionaires” — Harry Reid
“It has been estimated by statisticians and economists that the war (WWI) yielded $16 Trillion in Profits. That is how the 21,000 Billionaires and millionaires got that way. This $16 Trillion in Profits is not to be sneezed at. It is quite a tidy sum” — Smedley D Butler
“American families cannot compete with billionaires. Our involvement in government should not be dependent on our bank account balances” — Harry Reid
To all those opposed to government giving poor people free sh_t: start by opposing all the free sh_t government gives billionaires & corporations — Andy Borowitz
“Today, the United States is No. 1 in billionaires, No. 1 in corporate profits, No. 1 in CEO salaries, No. 1 in childhood poverty and No. 1 in income and wealth inequality in the industrialized world” — Bernie Sanders
![[Paradise Papers] shows how these billionaires and multinational corporations get richer by hiding their wealth and profits and avoid paying their fair share of taxes Quote](https://itsamoneything.com/money/wp-content/uploads/Bernie-Sanders-Paradise-Papers-Wealthy-Avoid-Taxes.jpg)
“[Paradise Papers] shows how these billionaires and multinational corporations get richer by hiding their wealth and profits and avoid paying their fair share of taxes” — Bernie Sanders
“We are moving toward an oligarchy where we have a government of the billionaires, by the billionaires and for the billionaires” — Bernie Sanders
“I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars. I said, you’re not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. Well, son of a bitch. He got fired” — Joe Biden
“It’s clear now that ‘Drain the Swamp’ really meant ‘Suck up all the morally bankrupt billionaires, Wall Street executives, and special-interest pond scum, and then pump them into the White House with a fire hose” — Ben Cohen
“Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people” — Samantha Bee
“Are we going to have a commissioner of the IRS who aggressively enforces the law and takes good cases to Tax Court or (somebody who) just throws away tax cases so billionaires don’t have to pay their taxes and the rest of us can pay more taxes?” — Richard Painter
“I wouldn’t sell my bike for all the money in the world. Not for a hundred million, trillion, billion dollars!” — Pee-Wee Herman
“Hollywood still makes things. We still export a couple billion dollars’ worth of product overseas” — George Clooney
“Instead of focusing on hard-working families as he promised, President Trump’s tax outline is a wish list for billionaires. What few details are here overwhelmingly cut taxes for the richest and do little for middle class Americans and those trying to get there” — Nancy Pelosi
“If you don’t want big money to control government, don’t vote for candidates who take money from big banks, oil or weirdo billionaires” — Adam McKay
“In California alone, women lose 78.6 billion dollars to the wage gap. It’s time to end this injustice. It’s time to close the gap” — Jennifer Siebel Newsom
“Seven years ago, five justices overturned two centuries of jurisprudence to determine that private business corporations enjoy the political free speech rights of the people. Today after hundreds of millions of dollars in dark money have been spent by CEOs in the name of their unwitting shareholders and billionaires act as our new political bosses and cabinet secretaries, we can see what plutocracy looks like” — Jamie Raskin
“7 years after Citizens United, Donald Trump is giving millionaires and billionaires direct control over our democracy” — John Sarbanes
“Jews are estimated to make up less than 1% of the world’s population, yet approximately 25% of the world’s billionaires are Jewish” — H.W. Charles
“Don’t worry that you can’t seem to come up with sure billion dollar winners at first. Just do projects for yourself for fun. You’ll get better and better” — Steve Wozniak
“I will appoint justices … who will protect a woman’s right to choose, rather than billionaires’ right to buy elections” — Hillary Clinton
“There’s no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billion dollars and then there’s people starving. There’s no way! There’s no way that these people should own planes and there people don’t have houses. Apartments. Shacks. Drawers. Pants!” — Tupac Shakur
“I know you’re rich. I know you got 40 billion dollars, but can you just keep it to one house? You only need ONE house. And if you only got two kids, can you just keep it to two rooms? I mean why have 52 rooms and you know there’s somebody with no room?! It just don’t make sense to me. It don’t” — Tupac Shakur
“Putin … is one of the richest men in the world. I estimate that he has accumulated $200 billion of ill-gotten gains … over his 17 years in power. He keeps his money in the West and all of his money in the West is potentially exposed to asset freezes and confiscation. Therefore, he has a significant and very personal interest in finding a way to get rid of the Magnitsky sanctions” — Bill Browder
“And remember the $5 billion website? $5 billion we spent on a website, and to this day it doesn’t work. A $5 billion dollar website? I have so many websites. I have them all over the place. I hire people, they do a website. It costs me $3 dollars” — Donald Trump
![[CFPB] has returned nearly $12 billion directly to families who were tricked by big banks, payday lenders, debt collectors, and other financial institutions Quote](https://itsamoneything.com/money/wp-content/uploads/Elizabeth-Warren-CFPB-Billions-Tricked-Payday.png)
“[CFPB] has returned nearly $12 billion directly to families who were tricked by big banks, payday lenders, debt collectors, and other financial institutions” — Elizabeth Warren
“The plane is totally out of control. It’s going to be over $4 billion for Air Force One program and I think it’s ridiculous. I think Boeing is doing a little bit of a number. We want Boeing to make a lot of money, but not that much money” — Donald Trump
“[California] did all the stuff conservatives warned us would make things even worse but the sky didn’t fall, unemployment did, and growth shot up to over four percent, and a 26 billion dollar deficit became an 11 billion dollar surplus” — Bill Maher
“I’m raising money for the party, and I’ll do well. But the whole system is crazy. To spend $2 billion or $1 billion … I just don’t know why you need that much money” — Donald Trump
“Fat cats on Wall Street, They got a bailout, While somebody else got 2 wait, 700 billion but my old neighborhood, Ain’t nothing changed but the date” — Prince
“Our country is losing up to a hundred billion dollars every year as corporations stash their money in postal addresses in the Cayman Islands, in Bermuda and in Panama” — Bernie Sanders
“What is the Vatican worth, like 500 billion dollars? This is great, sell the Vatican, take a big chunk of that money, build a gorgeous condominium for you and all your friends to live in, all the amenities, swimming pool, tennis court, waterslide, and with the money left over, feed the whole f**king world” — Sarah Silverman
“The $28.5 billion in bonuses doled out to Wall Street employees is double the annual pay for all 1,007,000 Americans who work full-time at the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour” — Sarah Anderson
“The difference between Donald Trump and me — well, there’s $10 billion in difference, at least — but in addition to $10 billion, the difference is that Donald Trump’s solution is that we elect billionaires” — Lawrence Lessig
“Of our 49 billion, we haven’t moved any to Bitcoin” — Warren Buffett
“It’s curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you’re saving money” — Rand Paul
“If you’re caught with an ounce of cocaine, the chances are good your going to go jail. If it happens repeatedly, you may go to jail for the rest of your life, But evidently if you launder nearly a billion dollars for drug cartels and violate our international sanctions, your company pays a fine and you go home and sleep in your own bed at night” — Elizabeth Warren
“Anyone who shrugs and claims that change is just too hard has crawled into bed with the billionaires who want to run this country like some private club” — Elizabeth Warren
“Even when your ears are stuffed with money, you get a little sound that comes through … Billionaires should not be paying taxes at a lower rate than teachers and firefighters” — Elizabeth Warren
“I’m 80 years old and have $4 billion. I don’t need any more money” — T. Boone Pickens
“Do you know what ‘Paid for by’ really means? It means a billion dollars in the last election. Our government is filled with people who have been PAID FOR” — Jason Alexander
“Of course sometimes shit go down, When it’s a billion dollars on an elevator” — Beyonce
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“[Congress] and their cronies secure more than one hundred billion dollars in corporate welfare” — Lawrence Lessig
“Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars” — Warren Buffett
“I’m just a retired guy who made a couple billion by being in the right place at the right time” — Richard Rainwater
“It’s a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money’s worth” — George Humphrey
“Santa is having a tough time this year. Last year he deducted eight billion for gifts, and the IRS wants an itemized list” — Milton Berle
“Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education… no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both” — Abraham Flexner
“Hey, a handful of billionaires can’t buy our elections, right? Of course not! They can only pour unlimited anonymous cash into a 501(c)(4) if 50% is devoted to issue education. Otherwise they’d have to 501(c)(6) it or funnel it openly through a non-campaign coordinated super PAC” — Jon Stewart
“It didn’t cost the nation anything to integrate hotels and motels. It didn’t cost the nation a penny to guarantee the right to vote. Now we are in a period where it will cost the nation billions of dollars to get rid of poverty, to get rid of slums, to make quality integrated education a reality” — Martin Luther King Jr.
“Billions of Dollars are pouring into the coffers of the U.S.A. because of the Tariffs being charged to China, and there is a long way to go. If companies don’t want to pay Tariffs, build in the U.S.A. Otherwise, lets just make our Country richer than ever before!” — Donald J. Trump
“Barclays jeopardized billions of dollars of wealth through practices that were plainly irresponsible and dishonest” — Loretta Lynch
“People who sell bolts and nuts and locomotives and frozen orange juice make billions, while the people who struggle to bring a little beauty into the world, give life a little meaning, they starve” — Kurt Vonnegut
“People who sell bolts and nuts and locomotives and frozen orange juice make billions, while the people who struggle to bring a little beauty into the world, give life a little meaning, they starve” — Kurt Vonnegut
“To date, 18 of our United States have asked Congress for a Constitutional amendment that would allow limits on political spending where appropriate and let us take our government back from those who give big transaction money – in other words, trading millions in contributions for billions of your taxpayer dollars” — John Pudner
![[Mnuchin] spent two decades at Goldman Sachs helping the bank peddle the same kind of mortgage products that blew up the economy and sucked down billions in taxpayer bailout money, before he moved on to run a bank that was famous for aggressively foreclosing on families Quote](https://itsamoneything.com/money/wp-content/uploads/Elizabeth-Warren-Mnuchin-Goldman-Sachs-Mortgage-Products.png)
“[Mnuchin] spent two decades at Goldman Sachs helping the bank peddle the same kind of mortgage products that blew up the economy and sucked down billions in taxpayer bailout money, before he moved on to run a bank that was famous for aggressively foreclosing on families” — Elizabeth Warren
“[Trump] wants to roll back regulations on Wall Street. He wants to eliminate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has saved billions of dollars for Americans. He wants to basically just repackage trickle down economics” — Hillary Clinton
“There are 492 billionaires living in this country and 16 million kids living in poverty” — Bernie Sanders
“There are billions upon billions of dollars flowing into the pockets of organized crime, street gangs and gun-runners, because of the illicit marijuana trade, and if we can get that out of the criminal elements and into a more regulated fashion we will reduce the amount of criminal activity that’s profiting” — Justin Trudeau
“Top bankers have shown no shame for their bad behavior and have made no apologies to the public. The billions and billions of dollars of fines they have paid for financial fraud are just another cost of doing business, another shortcut to unjust profits” — Bernie Sanders
“Wall Street put billions of dollars in lobbying, in campaign contributions to get the government off their backs. They got the government off their backs. Turns out that they were crooks, and they destroyed our economy. I think it’s time to put the government back on their backs” — Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders Money Quotation saying Tax havens for corporations and taxes for billionaire hedge fund managers aren’t fair to working Americans. Bernie Sanders said:
“Major corporations that earn billions in profits stash their money in tax havens and pay nothing in federal income taxes, while billionaire hedge fund managers pay a lower effective tax rate than nurses or teachers” — Bernie Sanders
“I do not believe that people fought and died for democracy so that billionaires can buy elections” — Bernie Sanders
“Our world is one of terrible contradictions. Lavish lifestyles for a few, but poverty for too many others… Billions spent on weapons to kill people instead of keeping them safe” — Ban Ki-Moon
“We are here to fight back against a supreme court that says, ‘there is no difference between free speech and billions of dollars spent by the privileged few to swing elections and buy off legislators’. We are here to fight back against a supreme court that has overturned a century of established law in an effort to block congress from solving this problem” — Elizabeth Warren
“Americans … are appalled by Wall Street banks that got taxpayer bailouts and now whine that the laws are too tough, even as they rake in billions in profits” — Elizabeth Warren
“Tens of billions … are going into the pockets of tens of thousands of tax preparers who … love complexity as much as the rest of us hate it” — Nicholas Von Hoffman
“The supreme court overturned a century of precedent voiding campaign finance restrictions passed by congress and making it far easier for millionaires billionaires and big corporations to flood our elections with massive amounts of money. The supreme court is helping them buy elections” — Elizabeth Warren
“If I was a billionaire, I’d be smart with my money” — Bruno Mars
“TV millionaires paid by media billionaires to defend millionaire politicians bankrolled by billionaires as they block thousandaires from receiving hundreds” — David Sirota
“It’s a shame Mike Bloomberg can buy his way into the debate. But at least now primary voters curious about how each candidate will take on Donald Trump can get a live demonstration of how we each take on an egomaniac billionaire” — Elizabeth Warren
“I will be funded and fueled not by the billionaires, but by working people who will find out that $15- and $25-a-month contributions can take us from Hope to higher ground. Now, rest assured, if you want to give a million dollars, please do it” — Mike Huckabee
“We now have a political situation where billionaires are literally able to buy elections and candidates” — Bernie Sanders
“Bernie Sanders Money Quotation saying political corruption supports mostly republican candidates, there will be little progress on social needs. Bernie Sanders said:
“If billionaires are able to buy elections and elect right wing candidates, there is no way we will ever address climate change, college education affordability, job creation, raising the minimum wage and taking on Wall Street” — Bernie Sanders
“I’m not a billionaire. I can’t fund my own campaign. And as the campaign has gone on, it’s become harder and harder to raise the money we need to compete” — Kamala Harris
“We’re paid on how little we’re desperate enough to accept. And then the rest is skimmed off and given to a billionaire” — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
“About as bad as could be expected from a team of misogynist, climate-change denying, anti-immigration, billionaire civil rights opponents, but we better be ready for even worse to come” — Luis Gutiérrez
“The billionaire class is very religious. Their religion is greed. It's not enough to own the economy, they want to own the government too” — Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders Money Quotation saying Tax havens for corporations and taxes for billionaire hedge fund managers aren’t fair to working Americans. Bernie Sanders said:
“Major corporations that earn billions in profits stash their money in tax havens and pay nothing in federal income taxes, while billionaire hedge fund managers pay a lower effective tax rate than nurses or teachers” — Bernie Sanders
“I’m not a paranoid deranged millionaire. Goddamit, I’m a billionaire” — Howard Hughes
“My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress” — Warren Buffett
“You can’t tell a millionaire’s son from a billionaire’s” — Vance Packard
“We have a corporate establishment whose greed is destroying our economy, a political establishment which is beholden to billionaires and a media establishment which largely ignores the major issues facing working families. We need a political revolution” — Bernie Sanders