Pete Rose Quotes

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.

… there are a great many people who not only can make no budget but can barely manage to exist with their families on what they earn from day to day

In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation -- and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

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

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.

I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.

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

I grew up in an underprivileged home.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

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

I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.

Money can't buy poverty.

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

I grew up as a fairly poor kid in, you know, Toronto, Canada. I don't think I owned any new clothes until I was, like, 15 or something. They were all second-hand and forged from paper.

I was called McG since the day I was born because we were broke and there were three Joes in the house.

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

None of my friends were ever as broke as I was.

The root of all evil isn't money; rather, it's not having enough money.

History is full of examples of poorer nations that become wealthy by exploiting their comparative advantage in cheap labor to become globally competitive in a range of manufacturing industries.... If robots are expected to take over many of the menial jobs currently performed by people, the concern should not be for the working class in wealthy countries but for the billions living in the developing world who will now have lost the only established ladder out of poverty.

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.

Jobs are being outsourced at such an alarming rate My neighbor has no job at all with no prospects to date. So perhaps I should be thankful for the little that I make If I dare to ask for a living wage My job would be at stake.

Wealth is far away. Poverty is near.