Ronald Reagan Quotes

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.

Inequality is on the rise in Canada and those at the top have no idea what life is like for most Canadian families.

I am no metaphysician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor and I love the poor. I see what they call the poor of this country and how many there are who feel for them!

The social order we have built recognizes no exploitation of man by man. In our country there are no rich people to live at the expense of the workers and peasants. Just as there are no poor people living on the charity of others.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

The needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich

The poor should not have to learn how to be frugal and the rich should not have to learn to be extravagant.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

…nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.

We are the wealthiest country in the world. There is no excuse not to help poor people….When was the last time you saw poverty mentioned on television.

No harm is done by the possession of Luxury by some people if only at the same time EVERYBODY HAS ENOUGH. The wrong incurred by the rich toward the poor lies solely in the fact that while they revel, the poor starve

No man should be made poor so another man can be made rich.

We must focus on our biggest enemy, poverty. There is no single-state solution to it, and that is a noble goal.

Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

You gotta speak for the have-nots. Everybody ain't rich.

I fall into the camp that income inequality is the biggest problem we face.

We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won

We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

My grandmother instilled in me two important lessons: I was just as good as anyone else, and education was my salvation. Fortunately, I was able to get scholarships to excellent schools, but I was one of the lucky ones. All of this is what draws me to anti-poverty organizations like Oxfam.

But what right had I to these highest joys, when all around me was nothing but misery and struggle for a moldy bit of bread; when whatsoever I should spend to enable me to live in that world of higher emotions must needs be taken from the very mouths of those who grew the wheat and had not bread enough for their children?

I'm not sticking up for white kids - I'm going to have a barrage of hate mail - but it's true. If you're poor, you're really poor.

The first time I went to West Virginia I was surprised by how poor it was. It was like north India, there's kids running around in bare feet. The white working class has been disenfranchised as well. It's been disenfranchised by the liberal-left as well as the conservative-right. You really have to get people right across America and Britain and Europe and the world as a whole concentrating on the economic issues that affect them, because when you don't have that, you have all these phony, racist and cultural wars, and sexist wars.

Rich kids who write songs about food stamps always piss me off. I'm not going to write any songs about that, either.