The problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them will only become poorer.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

During the Enron debacle, it was workers who took the pounding, not bankers. Not only did Enron employees lose their jobs, many lost their retirement savings. That’s because they were at the bottom of the investing food chain.

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What’s happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It’s going to make the situation worse.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don’t buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.

We’re still in a recession. We’re not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.

If you’re totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That’s all to the good.

In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I’m not ashamed of anything.

Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That’s the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

We have always been prepared to negotiate with the U.S. government everything that has to do with bilateral relations, on a basis of the strictest mutual respect for the sovereign rights of each country. We will never try to ask the government of the United States to change its economic and political system.

I declared bankruptcy, and that was the worst thing I ever should have done.

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

It’s not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It’s not an accident. That’s a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

I bet taxpayers remember providing more than $812 billion to Citigroup and Bank of America, two Wall Street banks, in 2009 to bail them out during the 2008 financial crisis. Taxpayers remember that generosity; big banks evidently don’t.

It’s the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change – as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.

At my lowest point, I was nearly $700,000 in debt.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful.

I don’t have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

We were poor, but we smiled.