Quotes About Private Jets

“There are people in this world so rich that when it rains they simply fly away on private jets in search of sun.”

— Peggy Kopman-Owens

“Hurricanes, after all, are the product of global warming, caused by man and his insatiable lust for SUVs (but not private jets).”

— Greg Gutfeld

“Some billionaires like cars, yachts and private jets. Others like newspapers.”

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

“'Entourage' was a show that existed around wish-fulfillment. People watched it because they wanted to believe they could go on private jets and be hanging out in Hollywood, but as a show, comedically, it was not funny. Not a funny show. It's funny, ironically, because of how terrible it is.”

— Adam Pally

“People don't realize it, but no one lives that rock and roll life 24-7. They think it's hundreds of bottles of champagne flowing and private jets and money. But there's a lot of time when you're traveling - time to think, time to be lonely. Sometimes it gets to you.”

— Lenny Kravitz

“There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.”

— Gary Ackerman

“The gap between rich and poor is widening dramatically. There's a hangar at the Cairo airport for private jets, billionaires are on the Forbes list, and Egypt's annual per-capita income is two thousand dollars. How can you sustain that?”

— Mohamed ElBaradei

“Or consider how we citizens of rich countries obtain our oil and minerals. Teodoro Obiang, the dictator of tiny Equatorial Guinea, sells most of his country's oil to American corporations, among them Exxon Mobil, Marathon, and Hess. Although his official salary is a modest $60,000, this ruler of a country of 550,000 people is richer than Queen Elizabeth II. He owns six private jets and a $35 million house in Malibu, as well as other houses in Maryland and Cape Town and a fleet of Lamborghinis, Ferraris, and Bentleys. Most of the people over whom he rules live in extreme poverty, with a life expectancy of forty-nine and an infant mortality of eighty-seven per one thousand (this means that more than one child in twelve dies before its first birthday).”

— Peter Singer

“I don't stay up and rent private jets and go on yachts and whoop it up in Miami.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

“Private jets cost a lot of money.”

— Donald Trump

“What's problematic about playing stadiums and driving around in private jets and drinking champagne at 8 o'clock in the morning? What's wrong with that? I haven't got a problem with that. I can't fathom why people would.”

— Noel Gallagher

“In America, we have subsidized private jets, big banks and hedge fund managers. Wouldn't it make more sense to subsidize kids?”

— Nicholas Kristof

“However imperfectly, subsidies for the poor do actually reduce hunger, ease suffering and create opportunity, while subsidies for the rich result in more private jets and yachts. Would we rather subsidize opportunity or yachts? Which kind of subsidies deserve more scrutiny?”

— Nicholas Kristof

“But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.”

— Janice Dickinson

“I gave to a [Hillary Clinton ]foundation that, frankly, that foundation is supposed to do good. I didn't know her money would be used on private jets going all over the world.”

— Donald Trump

“Why not go to war just for oil? We need oil. What do Hollywood celebrities imagine fuels their private jets? How do they think their cocaine is delivered to them?”

— Ann Coulter

“I don't belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that's what's kept me grounded because I know it's not right.”

— Billy Joel

“The Fall of the House of Zeus is a riveting American saga of ambition, cunning, greed, corruption, high life and low life in the land of Faulkner and Grisham. These are good ol' boys gone bad with flair, private jets, and lots of cash to carry. Curtis Wilkie, a child of the South and a reporter's reporter, is the perfect match for this wild ride.”

— Tom Brokaw