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.

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.

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

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

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.

Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.

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.

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

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

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.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

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.

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

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.

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

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

The protestor I think will speak up for the world’s poorest.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

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

There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger – they come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.

It’s difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn’t available.

Most poor people live in the poorest countries.

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

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

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‚Look, here’s what happened.‘

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn’t afford to pay attention.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

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

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don’t have any insecurities.

I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn’t enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Today, we’re very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted – all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

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

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.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

The biggest and most deadly ‚tax‘ rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits – food stamps, housing subsidies and the like – if their income goes up.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

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.

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

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

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.

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges – on gifts, trades, loans – and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.

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.

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.