Tim McGraw Quotes

I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.

Poverty decreased in America as a result of the War on Poverty

Republicans need to define and present specific policies on how to eradicate poverty, help every child achieve a quality education, and lower the cost of increasing health premiums.

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

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

We've got to take care of the poor.

Government has a responsibility to the have-nots.

A New Dealer regrets poverty and deplores the fact that it is necessary for society to slough off its misfits as an individual sheds his impurities and his diseases. But New Dealers believe that human want and human distress should be prevented or at least ameliorated.

I’m really not concerned about the very poor. They have a safety net.

The states, just like the Federal government, just can’t let the poor die.

Giving away food only encourages the poor not to starve. Increase productivity, not employment. Insure profits before we insure people Don’t be haters! We’re job creators. Bailout banks, not these losers (people evicted by banks foreclosing on their mortgages).

Prohibiting Poverty

We used to wage war on poverty—not poor people.

Inequality of income is bad for everyone, not just the poor and the middle class.

I believe America thrives when the middle class thrives.

I agree that income disparity is the great issue of our time. It is even broader and more difficult than the civil rights issues of the 1960s. The '99 percent' is not just a slogan. The disparity in income has left the middle class with lowered, not rising, income, and the poor unable to reach the middle class.

Catholics want what other Americans want: access to health care and jobs that pay a living wage. They want to send their kids to good schools. They want something done about poverty.

I've always thought my main concern is to alleviate the burdens on people, who were earning less money, perhaps than £80,000.

Today, families like the one I grew up in still believe in that American dream. But as President Obama says, it's a make-or-break moment for the middle class. Mitt Romney's plans would make things worse.

Real Democrats don't abandon the middle class.

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.

We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.

We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!

Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been working hard to help middle-class families make it in America.

It boggles my mind that the same people who cry 'foul' about rationing an instant later argue to reduce health care benefits for the needy, to defund crucial programs of care and prevention, and to shift thousands of dollars of annual costs to people - elders, the poor, the disabled - who are least able to bear them.