Income Quotes

An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.

I'll end discriminatory laws like the Hyde Amendment that make it all but impossible for low-income women - disproportionately, women of color - to exercise their rights.

I will not cut benefits. I want to enhance benefits for low-income workers and for women who have been disadvantaged by the current Social Security system.

Incomes went up for everybody. Manufacturing jobs went up also in the 1990s, if we're actually going to look at the facts.

I think it's terrible for people in effect to say that income from investment should be taxed at a much lower rate than income from labor.

Leading economists have shown that by shrinking Texas, we can actually create more income for Texas in the long run.

I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.

Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.

No matter what federal program one selects - Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the drug war, the income tax and the IRS, education, foreign interventions and wars - they are all a giant mess.

So many low income people have seen so many failed promises broken and seen so many quacks and sporadic medicines offered to them that building trust takes a lot of time, takes a lot of patience.

When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity.

Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty.

There are probably no more market-oriented individuals on the planet, than low income people.

In F-111, I question the collusion between the Vietnam War, income taxes, consumerism, and advertising.

I agree with people who say we want more income equality; we want more consumer protection; and we want sounder banks. I agree with all that.

I'm just trying to get used to living on a fixed income. Now, it's going to get unfixed.

After adjusting for inflation, the average income of the top 5% of households grew by 38% from 1989 to 2013. …By comparison, the average real income of the other 95% of households grew less than 10%.

The lower half of households by wealth held just 3% of wealth in 1989 and only 1% in 2013.

If you're going to grow the economy, if people are going to have more income, you have to have stability in the marketplace.

President Bush listed his income as $822,000. You know what John Kerry calls someone who earns $822,000? Not even worth dating.

We ought to thank President Bush. He made it a lot easier for people to do taxes this year. No job, no income tax this year.

Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital.

I'm satisfied to have an ordinary success and an ordinary life and an ordinary income. Later, I don't know.

You might be a redneck if your primary source of income is the pawn shop.

[Mitt] Romney didn't get beyond the numbers. He couldn't get 50 percent. Romney didn't - Romney got killed by the under-$50,000-a-year income voter. He just got killed in that.

As white authors, bloggers, and readers, we must stop promoting diversity as a business opportunity or a chance to buy ally points with our disposable income.

When it comes to diversity, women are still underrepresented in so many different places, but one place we're not underrepresented is we hold a majority of the household income, and we control that.

The only one benefiting from this, the American taxpayer, almost half of our taxes, our income taxes, are going to the military and to these wars.

I have a day job, which means my family isnt dependent on the writing income. So if I have an idea I like, I write it.

American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world.

What I do is really helping people in maximizing their income and to live the lives they want to live. I effect they're families, I effect their beliefs about themselves and it gives me so much joy

A person's level of income and their desire to give have nothing to do with one another.

An across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes ... to expand the incentives and opportunities of private expenditures.

A technological revolution on the farm has led to an output explosion--but we have not yet learned to harness that explosion usefully, while protecting our farmers' right to full parity income

It's a rule worth having in mind. Income almost always flows along the same axis as power but in the opposite direction.

Rock 'n' roll started to make so much money and generated so much income for the record companies that suddenly it was no longer evil.

For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.

The whole point of life is to maximize your emotional income. Getting that ball and going is a tremendous physical thrill, an ego thrill, a personal power satisfaction.

Higher energy prices act like a tax. They reduce the disposable income people have available for other things after they've paid their energy bills.

Our GDP growth rates are creating - our high GDP growth rates, the success of our economy means we're creating lots of disposable income.

Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.

Women now have to put so much attention into their careers, and not many families can pull off a single income.

The life prospects of an American are more dependent on the income and education of his parents than in any of the other advanced industrial countries.

The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.

I've got people handling the media. I employ at the moment two people. No-one is paying income tax on the money they use to employ people.

Yes, there are lots of individual exceptions. But no one has ever done a study about voting intention without ascertaining that the biggest determining factor is your income and your wealth.

Income is there to create quality of life, but you can share your car and get where you want to go, and you can travel the world by couch surfing.

Mothers work outside the home for many reasons; one of them is almost always because their families need their income to live up to their standards for their children.

As entertainers, you're afraid [about] loss of income - but if other people start going to jail for free speech, then we've lost this great thing that America is, and I'd like to keep that.

It would be naive to imagine we have solved all our income security problems simply because the roles of the federal and provincial governments in the area of skills training have been clarified.