Quotes About Poverty

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

I know that government doesn't have the all solutions that real solutions do not come from the top down. Instead, the ways to end poverty come from all of us. We are part of the solution.

The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse.

Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

The tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all things government is trying to alleviate with spending.

The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it

As restrictions and prohibitions are multiplied the people grow poorer and poorer. When they are subjected to overmuch government, the land is thrown into confusion.

A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.

Tell the Government, our people shall not starve.

A democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I happened to write some jokes about it. I did real well for myself.

I see an America where poverty is defeated by opportunity, not enabled by a government check.

Comfort the weak and feel the poor. What on earth do we need government for?

Millions who endure poverty and bad government can now know what they are missing. To see how the other half lives all they have to do is switch on their television sets.

The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations, The more thieves and robbers.

There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

A guy I interviewed for Hard Times says, "What do I remember about the Great Depression? That I was hungry, that's all." Elemental things.

Our great country is rich and abundant in so many ways. It is totally unacceptable to me that we have children and families going hungry!

If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.

Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.

Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.