I've seen it with my own eyes: When government takes money from the poor and the middle class, everyone suffers.
Rather than improving the wealth of their own nation, the Mexican government encourages its poor to come to the U.S. and send money home.
I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it.
Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.
I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they didn't complain. They didn't murmur. And they believe in the Christ.
In 1997, in Rich Dad, Poor Dad, I stated, 'Your home is not an asset.' Real estate agents sent me hate mail.
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part of the world.
Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.
Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington.
Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
When the TV version of Annie came on, I was drawn to it. It was the struggle of this poor kid in this environment and how her life changed. It immediately resonated.
You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.
Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.
