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Everybody wants to talk about black and white, when the situation is really about rich people against poor people.
The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.
People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.
The government is more responsive to wealthy communities than poor communities, and to wealthy people than poor people.
The medical protocol for poor people is, if something hurts, get over it. If something hurts real bad, put salve on it.
I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.
If poor people are spending their own money, it is amazing how fast they will figure out how to keep a lid on medical bills.
I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.
The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point.
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.
If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s.
The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.
Poor people around the world spend more on energy because they lack the capital to buy a more expensive energy-efficient product.
I have got immense love from the poor people. What more do I need? I don't think of death and ailment. Life is in the hands of God.
I was from very poor people: 11 of us in a two-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn. I wanted the large houses, the cars, jets, and yacht.
Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.
You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.
There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism.
In Asia, we live within our means. So when we are poor, we live as poor people. I think that is a lesson that Europe can learn from Asia.
We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.
Wealth does not trickle down to the poor. Oxfam knows this, the IMF knows this, the World Bank knows this. Poor people have always known this.
My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses for the Palestinians, who are a poor people.
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
If you want to leave move money in the hands of poor people, you cannot do it through personal income tax cuts. You have to just give them money.
The world needs a person like me so that many other rich people will be able to follow my role model. If they do, many poor people will be helped.
Poor people aren't making dumb decisions because they are dumb, but because they're living in a context in which anyone would make dumb decisions.
Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal.
Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.
Ebola has changed everything in West Africa. We cannot sit back and say, 'Oh, those poor people.' We must think outside the box and find ways to help.
She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.
I remember thinking Democrats and liberals were the good guys. They cared about the little guy. They cared about poor people. They cared about minorities.
All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.
It is plain that we don't care about our poor people except to exploit them as cheap labor and victimize them through excessive rents and consumer prices.
What many economists fail to understand is that poor people are no less concerned about improving their lot and that of their children than rich people are.
People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people.
The more time I spent in developing countries, and the more time I spent talking to poor people, I realized what they want more than anything is a good job.
I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.
You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.
There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
You can give poor people this royal wedding to watch and make them feel good about themselves, or you can give them something useful like, I don't know... a toaster.
If there is an all India party in the country, it is the Congress. This is a party of poor people which believes in unity in diversity and which does justice to all.
Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.
'America is such a great country, we have fat poor people.' It's one of those jokes that doesn't hit people right away, because it's so prevalent that we don't get it.
Last year, when we were in Mobile, Al., covering Hurricane Ivan, we heard the stories of poor people, many of them black stranded downtown because they had no way out.
I worshipped money so much that it ruined my life. Money is not my god. I just want to manage His money for Him, for the poor people, the lost kids. I just love everybody.
Look what happened in Assam where the NRC was rolled out. Poor people with no way to find their documents were affected the most. And among them, the majority were Hindus.
We decided in the mid-1960s that all poor people are the same: they are all poor. We know they're poor because we have defined a poverty line, and they're all underneath it.
In a system that disproportionately harms poor people and people of color, too many Americans have lost faith in the essential American principle of equal justice under law.
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.