The Poor Quotes

The problem is not just affirmative action, though. The problem is poor people, working people and their children, and affirmative action for the most part doesn't even apply to them.

Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.

We need to put strong Democratic pressure on President Obama in the name of poor and working people.

Poor people can be greedy, too. It's just that they don't have any material resources. We need shaping of the souls as well as shaping of our institutions.

Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse!

It's as though some poor devil were to set out for a large dinner party with the knowledge that the following morning he would be hearing exactly what each of the other guests thought of him.

I had that trapped feeling, like some sort of a poor insect that you've put inside a downturned glass, and it tries to climb up the sides, and it can't, and it can't, and it can't.

It is easier to give all your goods to feed the poor, or not to have any goods - only your virtues, to boast of - than it is to judge the rich with charity.

My shooting technique is so poor that if someday I score from outside the box, the keeper has to be banned from football.

The world has also learned that economic growth, by itself, cannot close the gap between rich and poor.

The problem is that the Enlightenment dream may make too many demands on poor African apes like us. We may just not be up to it.

The problem is that people basically dangle debt in front of us. And the cost for the poor of course is much higher than for the wealthy.

My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man, I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band.

At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?

Rich countries want unfettered access to poor countries' markets, which are often heavily protected by tariffs, but they don't want to give up all the protections for their own goods and services.

You know, probably the notion that conservatives, Republicans, only care about the rich and that Democrats care about the poor - is that true? And nothing could be further from the truth.

My son, Rob....said the only time he ever wraps a gift is, quote, "if it's such a poor gift that I don't want to be there when the person opens it."

My Country's trying to save the World, stop the wars, relieve the poor, feed the hungry, heal the sick and liberate the captives that are bound by countries like America!

We slit the Catholic throat, stoned the poor on such slogans as wish you could hear and love is all we need.

I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.

Impatience is a poor substitute for a well-considered plan.

The reason why we often get poor advice is that it's hard to find a person who always has our best interest at heart, isn't envious in any way, and at no level thinks he knows what's best for you.

Mitt Romney said he's not concerned about the very poor. What he means is people making less than a million.

Mitt Romney is doing what he can. He's trying very hard. He wants to unite America, the rich with the wealthy, the poor with the indigent, and the white with the Caucasian.

If our lives do not reflect radical compassion for the poor, there is reason to wonder if Christ is really in us at all

Faithfully caring for the poor and needy is a reflection of spiritual maturity.

Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat.

When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to something.

Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.

Aside from the poor example it sets, the federal government enables reckless spending on public-employee pensions by offering hope of assistance from Washington if things get bad enough.

Through eons of living in a land so poor there was little to eat but oats, they had as usual converted necessity into a virtue, and insisted that they liked the stuff.

It’d be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow

You do have the idea of being ‘just good friends?’” He gave her a sideways look. “For so high and honorable an estate,” Roshaun said, “ ‘just’ seems a poor modifier to choose.

One thing that improved my cooking skills was being a poor student in California... If you don't have much money, you have to learn to cook.

My brother and I laughed a lot as kids. We came up in the middle of the Depression, and neither one of us knew we were poor. We had nothing, but we didn't know it.

Many overlook the fact that Jesus was homeless. He did not only teach the poor; He lived among them.

A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

I had to get rich so I could afford to sing like I was poor again.

I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'

One is only poor, only if they choose to be.

I am a seeker, a poor, sinful creature, there is no weaker than I.

I think being poor has been good for me. I saw how my mom and dad struggled, and how they could stretch a dollar farther than you could begin to imagine.

Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor games get in there.

I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size.

President [Barack] Obama has been an unbelievable divider of this country, whether it's rich and poor; white and black.

I think that we are not in the position that we used to be. I think we were a very powerful, very wealthy country. And we're a poor country now. We're a debtor nation.

The Obama-Clinton energy restrictions are a massive tax on the poor that disproportionately impacts communities of color. I will lift these restrictions, creating millions of jobs.

Hillary Clinton gets rich making you poor.

I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.

Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my poke in the eye,' and you will find me and Morpheus off in a corner, necking.