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We are particularly poor at the open economy issues.

The poor man is he who, having much, craves for more.

Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race.

There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

It is a sin to be poor.

A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill.

One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't understand science; they can't talk to us because they don't understand anything else, poor dears.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.