James Reston Quotes

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

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

Money can't buy poverty.

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.

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

Wealth is far away. Poverty is near.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

We live in a world in which we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots.

Those of us who have been economically successful cannot forget those who have not.

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.

When I was a young fellow I was very much disturbed by there being some people with lots of money and lots of people with no money.

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

…nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.

In every country, and under every government, particular men may be too rich.

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

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

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.

Inequality is on the rise in Canada and those at the top have no idea what life is like for most Canadian families.

We are living at a time where a handful of people have wealth beyond comprehension - huge yachts, jet planes, tens of billions of dollars, more money than they could spend in a thousand lifetimes. But at the same time, millions of people are struggling to feed their families or put a roof over their heads or find the money to go to a doctor.

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.