Terry Funk Quotes

I know what it's like to have a family and not have insurance and really need it. As a comic, insurance was one of those sacrifices I made early on until I could afford it.

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.

We didn't really feel poor. You don't know that as a kid, but we really didn't have any cash. When machinery broke down, we didn't have money for parts, so we did our best to fix it.

Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain't got this, somebody ain't got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.

Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach.

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

Don't hold against me that I don't own - that I don't own a single stock or bond. Don't hold it - I have no savings accounts.

Worrying about bills, food, or other problems leaves less capacity to think ahead or to exert self-discipline. So, poverty imposes a mental tax.

My son tried to work in films and he ultimately gave it up, he finally couldn't make a living, he couldn't support himself. He worked all the time and he didn't make enough money to have a house, have an apartment.

We can all agree that no American should lose their life savings or their home because of illness or injury and that the rising cost of health care severely burdens individuals, families and businesses.

Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues.

I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

I live like most of the people in my district: paycheck to paycheck.

The root of all evil isn't money; rather, it's not having enough money.

I don't make any money.

When catastrophic illness wipes out a middle class family's income, they come to the government for help and they come in a hurry.

Poverty for a female, went beyond teh wretchedness of having no money.

If poor people are spending their own money, it is amazing how fast they will figure out how to keep a lid on medical bills.

In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.

I've never felt fully able to sustain myself because I've run out of money many, many times, and it's been scary.

Nobody likes being broke. As somebody who's had to live out of a 1982 Datsun, trust me. I know. I also understand that the first step to improve your situation is to fix the problem that landed you there in the first place.

I was working at Lowes and Target, then FedEx, and still did not have enough money to pay rent on my own.

Larry and I didn't have two nickels together when we got engaged.

I was never, like, picking on people or anything like that. I was more the other way around. I was a little insecure, I was broke.

Retirement shouldn't be making the choice between buying much-needed medication or putting food on the table; making the choice between heating an apartment in the cold winter months or paying rent; making the choice between paying a phone bill or seeing a doctor.