Quotes About Poverty

Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can't afford other diversions.

If the country's poorer, it's got less money.

The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor people richer.

Advanced industrialised economies like ourselves cannot afford to go on growing, particularly if we want to give people in poorer countries a chance of being able to at least meet their basic needs.

We were much poorer than many families.

I'm the poorest famous person in the country.

Most poor people live in the poorest countries.

It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.

The poorest people are so incredibly poor, and the rich are so incredibly rich on the other side. That is a kind of fascination.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet.

A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.

Well when I was young, actually not just me, but we were all poor. Korea used to be one of the poorest countries in the world. Despite such circumstances, I was very, very fortunate to be blessed with having parents who always instilled in a spirit of can-do spirit.

I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry.

You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.

At Ellis Island, I mean, you didn't go there if you arrived in first class. It was only the poorest, the people in the worst shape.

Sri Lankans of every kind, overwhelmingly the poorest, have been bombed by one side or the other for decades.

The poorest guy in Miami lives better than much of the power elite in Havana.

For me, as the Government of India, the interest of the poorest of the poorest is paramount.

We can all get behind feeding the poorest kids in school, right?

Land degradation, rising sea levels, famine, and conflict will continue to drive people from their homes and towards cities, with megacities like Mexico City and Lagos becoming increasingly common in some of the poorest parts of the world.

I come from one of the poorest countries in the world, and Cameroon is also one of the most beautiful countries in the world.

People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people.

We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.