Quotes About Poverty

We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.

While government clearly plays the major role in fighting poverty through policies on things such as education, tax, and trade, business creates the wealth that matters.

The only way really to influence countries, in terms of poverty, is to get them to change their policies and get them to understand what the issues are.

One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.

Being an immigrant mother can be hard, but being a poor immigrant mother is much harder. You don't generally get to sit in cafes polishing your French by reading 'Le Monde.'

I know what it's like to lose your home. I know what it's like to be hungry. I know what it's like to lose a family member because of a lack of health care. So all of these things aren't just political issues for me. All of these things are personal to me.

When journalists and politicians speak of a dwindling middle class that's under economic assault and a poor community that's getting bigger, they're talking about Ferguson. Independent of the racial demographics and dynamics of Ferguson, Missouri, there's a 'Ferguson' near you.

Poverty destroys Americans every day by means of confrontations with the law, disease, pollution, violence and despair.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.

Money is a poor man's credit card.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.