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Quotes About Poor

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Revenge is one of the few things in politics that never gets lost in the mail or written off for a dime on the dollar like losers' campaign debts or pledges to help the Poor.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
The government transfers income and wealth according to the rules of politics, which make politicians the primary beneficiaries of the system, and the poor and needy the primary victims.
~ Hans F. Sennholz
The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.
~ Elvis Costello
The Left loves the poor so much it creates more of them every time it gets into power.
~ Silvio Berlusconi
False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.
~ Thomas Otway
My God, have mercy on my soul and on my poor people.
~ William (I)
The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.
~ William Feather
David's good-will in desiring to build the temple, was as much in God's account as if he had done it. Many shall be at the last day rewarded by Christ for clothing and feeding the poor, who, when on earth, had neither clothes nor bread to give, yet having had a heart to give, shall be reckoned amongst the greatest benefactors to the poor.
~ William Gurnall
Organised religion he hated; the church in all its guises for the way it took money from the poor and superstitious to sustain priests, ministers and vicars,
~ David Donachie
Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll,Who wrote like an angel, but talked like poor Poll.
~ David Garrick
Here lies poet Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an Angel, but talked like poor Poll
~ David Garrick
There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun, and it's been the ruin of many a poor boy and God I know I'm one.
~ Bob Dylan
God made poor woman with no heart, But gave her skill, and tact, and art, And so she lives, and plays her part. We must not blame, but pity her.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.
~ George Bernard Shaw
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.
~ Dennis Prager
The word "tip" stands for "to insure promptness." So when should you give it? Up front,of course. Sophisticated people don't take chances on poor service, they insure good service.
~ Jim Rohn
I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.
~ Barack Obama
In the long run, it costs more to provide poor rather than good service.
~ Bill Capodagli
I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
~ William Henry Harrison
Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision.
~ Gunnar Myrdal
A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful.
~ Robert B. Reich
Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
~ C. Northcote Parkinson