"Well, it was more that, as long as the people at the bottom are doing OK, does the gap matter?
Eighty per cent of the GCSE attainment gap is present by age seven.
In recent years, the gap between rich and poor in Kazakhstan has widened, heightening social tensions.
The gap between rich and poor has continued to widen.
Forte agreed with Arquette "100%" but said it was difficult to quantify the pay gap, or to know whether fault lay with female actors or agents for not pushing hard enough, or with executives for resisting equal pay.
Take the National Children's Bureau finding that the gap in potential between children from middle- and low-income families is already evident among babies of 22 months.
The gap, though, was not large: Labour have 83 target seats at stake with Ukip as a complicating factor.
TNS, which is regarded as more cautious than other pollsters, said its findings suggested the gap between the SNP and Scottish Labour is much narrower than the 20-point lead given to the nationalists in a spate of other recent polls, but that it was still gloomy news for the Scottish Labour leader, Jim Murphy.
The Turkish government, meanwhile, has enraged Greeks by pledging to step up exports to Russia to fill the gap.
That's the ugly side of the wealth gap in action.
Whenever the topic of the vast – and constantly expanding – wealth gap comes up for debate, it seems as if someone is always itching for the opportunity to resurrect those words, culminating in Fitzgerald's observation that the wealthy "think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are".
