“I had hoped that foreboding economic circumstances would have caused t...” — Jamie Johnson Quote

“I had hoped that foreboding economic circumstances would have caused the ultra-rich to think not just of themselves and increasing their own personal affluence. Unfortunately, however, too many of them lack concern, and without this concern, the divisive imbalance will only worsen with recession.”

“I know people socially who live in countries where the wealth gap is more extreme than it is in America, and they live with full-time security. They live with the threat of getting kidnapped, or they live with the threat of people invading their homes.”

“My father emigrated from Poland and my mother from Romania. There was no affluence in my family.”

“Affluence means influence.”

“If you are dim but have rich parents, a life of comfort, affluence and power is almost inevitable - while the bright but poor are systematically robbed of their potential.”