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There’s class warfare, all right. But it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

— Warren Buffett Attributed

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by Ben Stein in In Class Warfare, Guess Which Class Is Winning (November 26, 2006), The New York Times. Buffett made a similar statement in an interview with Lou Dobbs on CNN, 25 May 2005: "It's class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn't be."

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