Jimmy Carter Quotes

In Canada, we just have rich and poor, but we don't constantly remind poor people about it.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Never forget that there are rich people in poor countries and poor people in rich countries.

There are only two families in the whole world, my old grandmother used to say, The Haves and the Have-Nots.

The poor will never cease out of the land.

As income inequality increases, social mobility falls.

There's more poor people in this country than there are rich, and I stick up for the poor people.

Nobody talks about the poor. Everybody talks about the middle class and just kinda want to ignore that the poor exist. And you cannot ignore that they exist if you want to help them.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

I think that the poorest of the poor... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

I don't want there to be this separation between the rich and poor. I may be part of the three percent because I've been fortunate and done well for myself, but I will never forget about the 97 percent. That was me growing up. I was so poor I dreamt about being just 'regular poor,' not 'poor, poor.'

An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

The one class you do not belong to and are not proud of at all is the lower-middle class. No one ever describes himself as belonging to the lower-middle class.

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

Society is composed of two great classes-those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

A poor man is a man who has not got much money. This may seem a simple and unnecessary description, but in the face of a great mass of modern fact and fiction, it seems very necessary indeed; most of our realists and sociologists talk about a poor man as if he were an octopus or an alligator.