The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.
The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.
I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.
When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.
Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment.
Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.
As soon as, say, Saddam Hussein started bombing Israel with Scuds, everyone was like, 'Poor Israel.' But when Israel retaliates - and most of the time they then win - people turn against them.
Most disability charity hinges on that notion - that you need to send your money in quick before all these poor, pitiful people die. Peddling pity brings in the bucks, yo.
I believe Aids is the most important issue we face, because how we treat the poor is a reflection of who we are as a people.
I grew up poor and used to look at people in big houses and thought they had everything. Then later on I looked at models in magazines and thought they had it all.
Our culture doesn't seem to value competence as much as it used to. Now we seem to want to do and get everything as quickly as possible, which often leads to mediocre work and products. It seems to be the exception to find people at stores and busine...
Poverty is a result of poor choices not of poor luck
Not all of those who cry 'The poor, the poor!' will enter the kingdom of heaven.
Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.
I want to live like a poor man with lots of money.
The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.
They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.
It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.
You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
Never promise a poor person, and never owe a rich one.
It's as difficult to be rich without bragging as it is to be poor without complaining.
