Will Rogers Quotes

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

I myself am from a very poor background; I experienced firsthand poverty in this country, and that is not unrelated to my desire, from the moment I became president, to make a priority of poverty reduction in this country.

Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

The poorhouse is vanishing from among us.... We ... today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land.... We shall soon ... be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation.

…it would be much better to enable every man to earn his own living, instead of being driven to the awful necessity of stealing and then dying for it.

Independence feels like a luxury, where the reality is that it's hard to survive financially for so many people out there.

When our economy is truly healthy, and everyone rises with the tide of prosperity, then issues such as the lack of affordable housing, homelessness, and hunger are greatly diminished.

We should be helping people who actually need it, people working hard while their paychecks aren't increasing as much as they should.

We need to put priority on addressing issues related to people's daily lives and their economic hardships.

They say that money is not everything. I say that when you don't have any, it is everything.

Having money isn't everything, not having it is.

If dirt were dollars, I wouldn't have to worry anymore.

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.

I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.

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

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

Growing up, I didn't know anything about money other than we didn't have any.

It was the height of the Depression, and suddenly I am earning pots of money.

We had plenty of clothes and no money.

How can a man help breaking the law when he don't have money to live on?

There is no question in the world that educating a girl is good for her country and good for her. The challenge is, is it good for her parents who are living in extreme poverty, who need the girl's help to take care of getting firewood, water, taking care of young children?