Laura Loomer Quotes

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

The world knows already, they just don't have a picture up there or I'll spend the rest of my life in exile. It's hard to do that when you don't have any money.

Although I have to admit I have despised a couple of people simply because they have never had a job in their lives.

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

I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.

Our businesses can't create jobs when they're losing revenue, and the unemployed can't apply for jobs when they can't pay their phone bill.

Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants.

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

I didn't really have an interest in politics when I first entered the workforce. What I wanted to do was help people who grew up like me. When I was a kid growing up in Tucson, my father lost his job and we lost everything - including our home. We lived in an abandoned gas station for two years until we were able to get back on our feet.

What a miserable place a city is for poor people.

Poverty for a female, went beyond teh wretchedness of having no money.

Poverty is terror. Having your Social Security threatened is terror. Having your livelihood as an elderly person slowly disappearing with no replenishment is terror.

We've created the class of folks who are unemployed for longer than a year that it's very, very difficult to reconnect to society.

When I was growing up, I heard horror stories about producers losing their houses overnight. No matter who the family is, hearing of them getting evicted is very sad.

Any one of us could fall on hard times. Work and housing have the potential to be unstable, especially for those earning low wages or relying on family and friends. It should not be a criminal offence to sleep on the street.

Growing up, we really didn't have a lot of money.

My father did not have a lot of security in his life. He did odd jobs. He had a real struggle to make money. He lost a lot of time in his 20s, after the war, because he was sent to a forced-labour camp in Siberia.

Now, instead of loading up your jalopy and heading for California, you take a second, badly paid job; 'The Grapes of Wrath' has turned into 'Nickel and Dimed.'

I know what it's like to be on public assistance and to be unemployed. And I know what it's like to be evicted.

I never grew up with money, and I never wanted a lot of material things.

We need to do more to help the men and women across the country who are working hard but still struggling to make ends meet due to low wages and high healthcare costs.

Growing up, I wouldn't say I was poor. But my parents, although we lived in a nice, middle-class home, they had their struggles.

As a first-generation college student who worked my way through community college on to Cornell Law, having health insurance was not a top priority when I was starting out. I was buried in student loan debt and worried about simply making ends meet.

There were times when we couldn't even go to the movies, when I was a kid, because there wasn't enough money.

My family, like many families here in South Carolina, have faced difficult financial situations.