Victoria Coren Mitchell Quotes

Free school meals for all children, no matter what their background, will improve the education and health of our children.

The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street, but the school district I was in included some fine neighborhoods - so I got to know a couple of the kids from those places and went to their houses and experienced such culture shock.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children.

A family living at the poverty level is unlikely to be able to afford a computer at home. Even with a computer, access to the Internet is another significant expense. A child might borrow a book from a public library; but it is not possible to take a computer home.

The United States is no longer first in the world in upward mobility. We can reverse that trend by giving our young children an equal start in life as they begin their journey to fulfill the American Dream.

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

A vacation from school should not mean hunger for our children.

It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.

One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor.

No one should have more than five times the wealth of the poorest person.

A universal voucher program would change the face of poverty in this country.

This is what I think about poverty: why waste the potential of people? You never know what you've got going in society unless you give people a chance.

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

We don't have universal health care. Education is so expensive. We have these massive problems, you know? So it makes me really happy to think that somebody could have all the music in the world for free. But at the same time, if you have enough money to pay for it, you should pay for it.

I know that there are many excellent arguments for a universal form of basic income. Since everyone would get it, it would remove the stigma that dogs recipients of assistance and 'entitlements'.

It's definitely not the case that every child living in poverty is eligible for free school lunches.

You are only as rich as where you come from, and Nigeria has a lot of poverty.

If you know where your next meal is coming from, you are not poor.

I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.... What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.

The clearest way to know whether you are with a poor person in America is not by the logo on the clothes, because we all wear pretty much the same anymore. It's by looking into their eyes and seeing whether they look into yours, and seeing what kind of teeth they have.

Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.

Unless we improve our ability to provide a quality education for underprivileged kids, we're not going to really overcome in a massive way our past.