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.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

When I was an orphan, I was the richest kid at the orphanage because everyone else was complaining about not having anything. But when I discovered that you could get two cents for a Coca-Cola bottle, I would follow people around who were drinking it and ask them if they were almost through with it.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

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

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

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

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn’t even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

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

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don’t need to imagine it. It’s called the United States of America.

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

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that’s a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.

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

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.

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

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

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

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

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

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

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.

Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That’s not possible on $1 a day.

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

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

I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

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.

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren’t so exciting.

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

Food Stamp recipients didn’t cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of 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.

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

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we’ve got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, ‚I’m an orphan again today, isn’t this terrible? Poor me.‘

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.

Without electricity, the air would rot.