Denis Napthine Quotes

People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances.

I knew what it was to be poor... my mother worried about putting food on the table. I knew what it was to feel excluded and shut out, but I also knew what it was to experience love and generosity.

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

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.

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

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.

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.

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

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

The poverty of a man of benevolence is not to be considered as poverty but only as his temporary inability to exercise his inherent duty.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

When I was born, my family was so poor that there was no money to buy food. So the church bought groceries for us - there wasn't any kind of privilege.

I didn't have money growing up.

You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody.

We were on welfare when we were kids. Thanks for reminding me of that.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.

I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

At a time of economic recession, the need for Medicaid and other safety net services is even greater. And we don't want to raise taxes on people who are having a tough time paying their bills.

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

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.'

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.

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

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.