John Kasich Quotes

Political rights notwithstanding, 'freedom' rings awfully hollow when you're getting nickel-and-dimed to death in your everyday life.

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

I think my father kept struggling to get us into better neighborhoods, better schools. One of the worst jobs he had was folding shirts under these fluorescent lights all day at the equivalent of a Kmart. I remember visiting him at work, thinking, 'When I grow up, I've got to do anything else.'

Very few people can afford to be poor.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

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

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

nothing more afflicts the mind of man than Poverty

There’s been an economic war going on in this country and the middle class and the poor have been losing..

My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year.

You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it.

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

I grew up in a family where my parents worked full-time and still found themselves and their six children trapped like so many of the working poor.

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

Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.

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.'

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

I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.

There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.

In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.

Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.

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