David Lloyd George Quotes

The Polish society is not composed solely of entrepreneurial and energetic young people. I can't image pensioners who get 600 zlotkies or 800 zlotkies a month getting even less than that. That would be immoral.

This administration is cutting the programs that our Nation and its citizens need most, while dissolving the safety nets created to protect the elderly and less fortunate in this wealthy Nation.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

Money can't buy poverty.

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

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

It is clear that the economy has not gotten better for everyone.

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

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.

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

I was once a welfare recipient and am very aware of the successes and failures of this critical safety net. There are those that would have us believe that those receiving TANF benefits are lazy, shiftless, freeloaders who are just sitting around thinking of another way to suckle from the government teat.

Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased?

And the 90% they are not is what I do for a living.

I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.

I don't want there to be this separation between the rich and poor. I may be part of the three percent because I've been fortunate and done well for myself, but I will never forget about the 97 percent. That was me growing up. I was so poor I dreamt about being just 'regular poor,' not 'poor, poor.'

Social Security is a problem solving program, not a problem creating one .... Social Security is our best anti-poverty program.

The poor will never cease out of the land.

There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

It is easy to say that poverty is no crime .... It is a blunder though, and is punished ... A poor man is despised the whole world over.

Put all other sufferings on one side of the scale, and poverty on the other, and poverty would be heavier.

Poverty in America wears a diaper much more often than it wears a hearing aid. Money desperately needed by poor kids is going to rich elderly.