Rick Perry Quotes

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

This would be bad for America

Many other countries in this world are in a difficult situation, and all the Thai people are probably worried about the fate of Thailand: whether the country would survive or not.

Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates.

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.

It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.

We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.

Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.

Poor France, thy fine climate, rich vineyards, and the wishes of the learned avail nothing; thou art a destitute beggar, and not the powerful friend thou wert represented to me.

What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence?

If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability _ economic, political and social.

Halve the income of the country and you double the risk of civil war.

Poverty is a corrosive brew, capable of eating away at the underpinnings of democratic life itself.

I love Milwaukee, the rust belt. It's a very special part of America that's full of promise but also full of pain, where poverty is acute.

Trump lays bare a lot of things already wrong with our society. But he also accelerates the process of it becoming worse, when it could be getting better.

I mourn the fact that my beautiful country has deteriorated in every way.

A no deal Brexit could bring Britain to a grinding halt and threaten the wellbeing of our country.

Every time I go to Beirut, I see people and the quality of life going slowly from bad to worse, and from worse to even worse.

The world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty.

No-one can say when the unwinding began, when the coil that held America together in its secure and sometime shifting grip first gave way.

Urbanisation, poverty, youth unemployment are leading to violence-prone cities.

Of course homelessness has many causes and the solutions are often frustratingly complex.

Detroit can't come close to repairing the decades of neglect without addressing the crisis in our neighborhoods. I live in southwest Detroit near Woodmere Cemetery. My neighbors and I deal with the negative impacts of job loss, increased poverty, and pollution every day.

To be honest, busking was a massive part of becoming aware of homelessness. I used to run into a lot of 'Big Issue' sellers and a lot of people on the street. It really opened my eyes to the kind of life that they live and the options that are open for them - or not, actually.