Nicolas Sarkozy Quotes

My people are poor and I am one of them.

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

If you work, you should not be poor.

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

The Democrat is the party that's gonna keep you poor!

Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation.

My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.

The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.

The international community... allows nearly 3 billion people - almost half of all humanity - to subsist on $2 or less a day in a world of unprecedented wealth.

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.

What we're saying is that if you are poor, you can die.

I do not accept the fact that a person should be poor if he works very hard.

You don't have to be impoverished to understand poverty.

Millions of middle-class Americans, in free fall during the economic collapse that began around 2008, have had a taste of what it means to be poor.

It's wrong that so many hardworking people - people working full-time, or even multiple jobs - need public assistance just to survive.

I think, in this country, if you work 40 hours a week, and you work hard, you ought to be able to afford an apartment somewhere.

We should be helping people who actually need it, people working hard while their paychecks aren't increasing as much as they should.

There are far too many people who get up early in the morning, and work hard, who cannot make ends meet.

Poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.

Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty.

From the fact of general well-being came the new position of the poor. They were now in most communities a minority. The voice of the people was now the voice of relative affluence. Politicians in pursuit of votes could be expected to have a diminishing concern for the very poor. Compassion would have to serve instead - an uncertain substitute.

I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean . . .

It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.