Jejomar Binay Quotes

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.

…nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

I don't need a set of message board points to tell me that people are hurting in my state. I know it because I've lived it.

It's hard to get people to empathize with the poor. You can get some people to sympathize with the poor, but to empathize is actually very hard, because most people are not poor. I realized that scarcity gives you a thread.

Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

I grew up in a council house in a poor Scottish town. I came of age during the recession of the mid-1980s when unemployment in my area reached 40 per cent.

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

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

The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the underclass: service jobs, celebrity dreams, Lotto wins, leisured poverty on pre-crunch credit cards, it's all there, part of the story of an English people whose grandparents never had it so good.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

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

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

If poverty were a man, I would have slain him.

People who are rich find it hard to understand the behavior of poor people. Economists are no exception, for they, too, find it difficult to comprehend the preferences and scarcity constraints that determine the choices that poor people make.

Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.

Churches know more about poverty than any government will ever know, because we're dealing with the poor every day.