Mario Diaz-Balart Quotes

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

… perceptions of poverty have gone up because there’s been rising inequality.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.

Although they are some of the hardest working folks I know, rural Americans earn, on average, $11,000 less than their urban counterparts each year. And they are more likely to live in poverty.

Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.

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

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.

Growing up I always felt like I was living on the other side of the tracks. I knew the people on the other side had more resources, more money, happier families.

There are many Asian-Americans who are living in poverty, especially our senior citizens.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.

A family living at the poverty level is unlikely to be able to afford a computer at home. Even with a computer, access to the Internet is another significant expense. A child might borrow a book from a public library; but it is not possible to take a computer home.

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

Like a lot of black people, I grew up straight po'. Wasn't no question about whether we was po', either. If you really wanted to know, all you had to do was look in our refrigerator.

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there. We have 300 million poor in India.

There are only two families in the whole world, my old grandmother used to say, The Haves and the Have-Nots.

A third of all the children born today will be on welfare.

One-fourth of the children in this country are poor—and they don't vote.

Visible minorities lead in education but trail in income.

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

Most Americans seem to be stuck in the economic strata to which they were born.