Hillary Clinton Quotes

Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

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

I was one of the poorest people in America.

I identify with the bottom of the pyramid, because, outside of having money, I am at the bottom of the pyramid.

Mitt Romney said he's not concerned about the very poor. What he means is people making less than a million.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

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

Money can't buy poverty.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.

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.

I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.

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.

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.

If you are poor today, you will always be poor. Only the rich now acquire riches.

The poor should not have to learn how to be frugal and the rich should not have to learn to be extravagant.

That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.

I don't think that the rich should be attacked. There's nothing wrong in being rich.

I don't think of anyone as rich or poor.

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

I don't really care much about what the top one per cent earn. The gap we ought to care about in wealth is between the middle and the bottom.

I'm not sticking up for white kids - I'm going to have a barrage of hate mail - but it's true. If you're poor, you're really poor.

I'm not one of these people who thinks everyone born into privilege should wear sack cloth and ashes. But it's something I wrestle with. I know a lot of people who live below the poverty level and have for a long time and it makes them uneasy to think they'll have to interact with people from different economic levels. Everyone has some sort of load put on them, whatever the circumstances they're born into.