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.

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

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

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.

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.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

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.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

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

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

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.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

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

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.

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

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

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.

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.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

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

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

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

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

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

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.

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

The Latin American debt that reached crisis levels from 1982 would have been sharply reduced by return of flight capital – in some cases, overcome, though all figures are dubious for these secret and often illegal operations.

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.

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.

We were poor, but we smiled.

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

Bad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because I’m the one paying on it. Other forms of bad debt are car payments, credit card balances, or other consumer loans.

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.

Who, being loved, is poor?

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

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

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

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

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

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.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

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.

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.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.