Jello Biafra Quotes

A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate.

We in the Congress Party are hoping to do greater efforts to help the people of India, especially the downtrodden who find it very tough to get ahead in life. We are focusing on tackling issues related to unemployment and poverty.

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

Without economic growth and job creation in Mexico, we won't be able to confront the migratory phenomenon.

You go down to Skid Row and you see literally hundreds of people and not just men, but women and children as well. It's really a tragedy that our society has come to that.

We just can't stop people from being homeless if that's their choice.

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.

The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.

The biggest single challenge to America and our future is income inequality. We've got to fix it.

There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.

If we are going to get a single mother off welfare and make her work, we should certainly make the private corporations contribute to the effort by giving up the over $1 Trillion of corporate welfare.

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

Unequal wealth distribution is a risk factor for inequality that must be attacked by policies.

I do not accept the fact that a person should be poor if he works very hard.

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

I know of only three ways of living in society: one must be a beggar, a thief, or a wage earner.

As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty spread and special privilege grow.

We continue the policy of not permitting any needy American who can and is willing to work to starve because the Federal Government does not provide work.

These institutions are generally more skilled at getting rich off those living in the lower economic reaches than they are in preparing them for the job market.

The fry of wandering beggars that grow up idly and hurtfully and burdenous to the Realm, might be unladen and better bred up.

Are we going to solve the issue of poverty? Absolutely not. Are we going to have an impact? I'm committed to it, and if we don't, I'll have no regrets because we're going to try everything we can.

If I cannot address the issue of visible homelessness and abject poverty on the streets of this community, I will not get re-elected in four years.

Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes from knowing you can support yourselves.

Could there be anything but widespread misery, where a privileged few controlled a nation's wealth, while millions labored for a pittance, and millions more were desperate for want of employment?

I often wonder how we can make the more fortunate in this country fully aware of the fact that the problem of the unemployed is not a mechanical one. It is a problem alive and throbbing with human pain.