Poverty Link Quotes

To blame the existence of al Qaeda on poverty like Egypt's is a slur on the poor.

Not everybody who is overweight comes from deprived backgrounds, but that's where the propensity lies.

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.

Anytime you cut food stamps, it naturally affects sales. People spend less.

Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.

Even though it is the case that poverty is linked to AIDS, in the sense that Africa is poor and they have a lot of AIDS, it's not necessarily the case that improving poverty - at least in the short run, that improving exports and improving development - it's not necessarily the case that that's going to lead to a decline in HIV prevalence.

Too often, I believe, liberals deny that poverty is linked to bad choices.