Nicola Sturgeon Quotes

U.K. welfare cuts are pushing more children into poverty; that is beyond dispute.

When you are already eating as cheaply and meagerly as possible, any raise in cost can quickly plunge you and your family into hunger.

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.

Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.

Poverty existed before January 20, 2008, OK? Before President Obama took office.

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

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

I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.

We are not strangers to poverty in New Mexico.

When upmarket shops like Waitrose collect contributions for local food banks, they serve as a constant reminder to those of my constituents who are lucky enough not to have to worry about where their next meal will come from that those less fortunate than themselves are increasing in number, and suffering more than ever.

In a country like Mexico, you can't forget about poverty - about how half of the population lives in poverty, and how half of that half live in extreme poverty.

Poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.

Many people assume that since New Jersey is a wealthy state with a high per capita income that a lot of these issues of poverty and hunger don't exist, and the fact is that they do.

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

The United States has more people living in poverty than at almost any time in the modern history of our country. I believe that in a democratic, civilized society none of our people should be hungry or living in desperation. We need to expand Social Security, not cut it. We need to increase funding for nutrition programs, not cut them.

The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.

My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.

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

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.

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

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.

America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty.

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it.