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Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.

When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.

To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Money is only a vehicle that provides you with options, and I say there's only one thing that money can't buy - poverty.

We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy.