I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.
Tony Campolo

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Jawaharlal Nehru

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.
Alicia Keys

The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.
Thomas Malthus

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.
Jean Anouilh

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
Honore de Balzac

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
Honore de Balzac

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.
George Herbert

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
Samuel Johnson

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
Samuel Johnson

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
Samuel Johnson

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
Samuel Johnson

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
Samuel Johnson

Justice is a whore that won't let herself be stiffed, and collects the wages of shame even from the poor.
Karl Kraus

I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.
Ray Charles

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.
William Henry Harrison

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
William Henry Harrison

I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
William Henry Harrison

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
Frank Herbert

Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
Sam Levenson