Park Won-soon Quotes

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

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.

In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Poverty affects people of all races.

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

I myself am from a very poor background; I experienced firsthand poverty in this country, and that is not unrelated to my desire, from the moment I became president, to make a priority of poverty reduction in this country.

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.

I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry.

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

Reducing poverty is in our own interest.

… mankind will no longer passively submit to crushing poverty with its effects of death, disease, and decline.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

Put all other sufferings on one side of the scale, and poverty on the other, and poverty would be heavier.

… poor people deserve access to food, education, housing, and medical services