Jeffrey D. Sachs quotes:

We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.

History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.

Markets cannot meet the needs of the very poor. The desperately poor are not consumers who will create an immediate profit.

The energy and daring is to resist the noes, until the final yes has been achieved.

The vast differences in power contributed to faulty social theories of these differences that are still with us today. When a society is economically dominant, it is easy for its members to assume that such dominance reflects a deeper superiority--whether religious, racial, genetic, cultural, or institutional--rather than an accident of timing or geography."

The rich control our politics to a huge extend. In return they get tax cuts and deregulation. It's been and is an amazing ride for the rich.