Kyrsten Sinema Quotes

The texture and hardship of poverty and eviction is something that I think left the deepest impression on me, and I hope that I try to convey a little bit of that to the reader.

As I have traveled the state, I have seen firsthand that there are Arizonans who are hurting.

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

When journalists and politicians speak of a dwindling middle class that's under economic assault and a poor community that's getting bigger, they're talking about Ferguson. Independent of the racial demographics and dynamics of Ferguson, Missouri, there's a 'Ferguson' near you.

Poverty makes slaves of free men.

I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.

It would be nice if we redefined what we meant by 'war story.' If you're making $15,000 a year living in a certain area of Portland, trying to make it with three kids and no husband, that's a kind of war.

I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor.

Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Maybe poverty is a special case of something else. That something else is 'scarcity,' and anyone who has the experience of 'having very little' experiences the same psychology.

Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization.

Poverty existed before January 20, 2008, OK? Before President Obama took office.

Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

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

You know, when you're poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don't know that everybody's not poor.

If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise awareness just of the simple humanity.

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.

When you are raised, as John Edwards was, in a small town like Robbins, North Carolina, you get to understand poverty and unemployment, or inadequate health care, first-hand by seeing the daily struggles of your friends and neighbors.