Best 1392 quotes in «poor quotes» category

I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care

I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.

I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind.

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

I come from a poor family.

I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.

I deny the resurrection every time I turn my back on the poor or become a cog in a system of injustice

I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words.

I do care about not 99 percent or 95 percent. I care about the very rich and the very poor. I care about 100 percent of America.

I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.

I don't have any extraordinary gifts. I'm just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

I don't think the rich or the poor are to blame, .. I think we are all to blame.

I don't trust a bank that would lend money to such a poor risk.

I don't understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?

I’d rather be poor and happy than rich and alone.

I don't think that the Scots are happy to drift into Britain becoming the poorest of the poor, sub-American 51st state.

I do not want to be cynical, but if developing nations are kept backward by being told, again and again, you belong to the poor and you are there, where you actually belong, then nothing will change.

I feel terrible for women that have had Phil Collins tattoos. Their poor husbands have to deal with.

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.

If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!

I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.

I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor - poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living.

If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.

I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.

If poor people knew how rich rich people are, there would be riots in the streets.

If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire - and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.

If seasteads advance blue-energy technologies, they'll create blue jobs. Millions of poor people living under exploitive governments are looking for a better choice. Seasteads won't attract them without offering them better options.

If I was a Marxist I'd call it the crisis of capitalism. Even though I'm not a Marxist, that seems like a not unreasonable term for the widening gap between the rich and poor that we're seeing.

If Slater were someone else, Kevin would merely be the poor victim of a horrible plot. Unless he was killed by Slater, in which case he would be the dead victim of a horrible plot

If the basic structure of Grameen is changed, the worry is that the poor women who are the rightful owners of the bank will be disenfranchised.

If the research agenda reflects "market forces", the problems of the poor are likely to be even more neglected than they already are.

If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.

I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.

If there are poor on the moon, we will go there too.

If we love (the poor) people, we want to identify with them and share with them.

If we owned the property, we will be free and prosperous. If so they regain control, we will become poor

If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake.

If we keep kicking the can down the road, if we follow the president's lead or if we pass the Senate budget, then we will have a debt crisis. Then everybody gets hurt. You know who gets hurt first and the worst in a debt crisis? The poor, the elderly. That's what we're trying to prevent from happening.

If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.

If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.

If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me.

If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more.

If you have nothing but compassion, you are still very wealthy; if you have everything but compassion, you are still very poor!

If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs.

If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to unhealthy ones.

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

If you're poor, potato chips are the food of life for you. It's the caviar.

If you sell to the rich, you will become poor. If you sell to the poor, you can become rich. It is easier to get one peso from a million poor people than to get one million from one rich person.