“It's class warfare. My class is winning, but they shouldn't be.”

— Warren Buffett

Interview with Lou Dobbs http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/10/buffett/index.html on CNN (25 May 2005)
Buffet has made similar statements in other interviews:
There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.
As quoted in "In Class Warfare, Guess Which Class Is Winning" by Ben Stein, in The New York Times (26 November 2006) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/business/yourmoney/26every.html

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