Martin Denny Quotes

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.

The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.

I had a low image of myself because I was brought up in the deep Depression.

I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.

There was a time when my mum would sew costumes for the dance studio so we could keep doing our classes because we couldn't afford them.

The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.

I can tell you that when I travel the state, when I talk to people, they are really struggling, in a very real way. They're losing their jobs, they're losing their homes, they're dealing with financial challenges.

I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe.

When our economy is not growing, those least able to look after themselves are the first thrown overboard ...

l had a job, and if you had a job in the depression you were rich.

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

There is scarce a poor man in England of forty years of age, I will venture to say who has not in some part of his life felt himself most cruelly oppressed by this ill-contrived law of settlement.

Eviction riots erupted during the Depression, though the number of poor families who faced eviction each year was a fraction of what it is today.

I grew up in an era when money was not readily available. We were into the post-Depression years and World War II.

I've lived through the Great Depression.

I loved my mom so much because she had to work on a penny just to put food on the table... During the Depression in the United States, everybody had a tough time. And I was so hurt because she was crying that she didn't have any food for us for Thanksgiving.

Going through economic hard times is something I know firsthand.

My parents were not professionals. They were products of the Depression.

I was once that kid that needed a donation - that needed help to go to camp because my mom wasn't able to pay for it.

I know what it's like to be a teenager in Orange County. I know what it's like to be a kid in L.A. I know what it's like to not have any money and have your lights turned off. I know what it's like to live in a house with five rooms.

Without much money, I traveled to Argentina to see the meat industry, and after that, I wanted to travel to the United States, but I was refused a visa 5 or 6 times, but I never gave up.

I was raised by a single mother. We were definitely below the median income of our area.

Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it is a disgrace.