Mazie Hirono Quotes

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

I didn't have a dollar to my name in 2006.

I have no problem talking about how hard it's been, how broke I've been, and how broke I was not even that long ago.

We were under a lot of financial pressure when I was growing up.

I've been in hard times.

I almost went broke. I didn't file bankruptcy, but I had some miserable times there for two or three years.

I've been poor most of my life.

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

There were so many lean years. A lot of lean years.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.

Money was tight and Mum used to do two jobs to support us.

I grew up poor.

You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

I was broke until I was 40. Really broke. I could get by, but I had nothing.

They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash.

I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

I come from a family that doesn't have a whole lot of money.

I did just about anything to pay the rent for a while.