Antonis Samaras Quotes

I had a lovely time growing up. But I was very aware of the miners' strike going on, friends' families collapsing, and people being unemployed.

These are tough times, and the New Yorkers I have met are facing economic adversity with grace and dignity. They worry about their future, care about their neighbors and hope this storm will pass so they can focus on better days ahead.

My folks were so worried about what they were going to do. All they can take was what they could carry with their hands. What they had for twenty-five years of building their business was going to go out the door, or they're going to lose it.

In real life things don’t go so smoothly. At certain points in our lives, when we really need a clear-cut solution, the person who knocks at our door is, more likely than not, a messenger bearing bad news.

Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person.

We start this new year in the midst of an economic crisis unlike we have seen in our lifetime.

Poverty's potential for character building is far overrated.

Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.

I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.

When you ain’t got no money, you got the blues.

Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.

Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?

We live in a complex world and at a challenging time.

It is hard to apply oneself to study when there is no money to pay for food and lodging. I almost never explain these things when folks are asking me why I don't do this or that.

Either we all commit suicide together or guarantee institutions that provide stability for all. We need reforms that are enduring, so people aren't frightened. Our first year is going to be very interesting.

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

There's a world of troubleTrying to take its turn I can hear it shaking undergroundAnd half a dozen lessons I might never learn Not until them troubles come around.

Maybe the light's at the other end of the tunnel.

It's good to have some certainty in life, even if it's only that I'm in deep trouble.

ʺThings are going to get worse before they get better, arenʹt they?ʺ

This season isn't going to be without several crises. There's no doubt about it. They're coming.

Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things.

The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.