Poorest Quotations

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.

Live Below the Line raises real money to help the world's poorest people, but it is also a symbolic demonstration aimed at highlighting - not replicating - the plight of the world's poor.

Even the poorest in Israel are looked upon as freemen who have lost their possessions, for they are the sons of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

One of the things we have to remember about the poorest countries in the world is that parents, extremely poor parents, are making the choice of whether to send their girls to school. And they are struggling with lack of water, lack of firewood, and lack of care for their youngest children. And those burdens fall on the girls.

I am positive that I would see the end of child labour around the world in my lifetime, as the poorest of the poor have realised that education is a tool that can empower them.

The Global Poverty Project's mission is to stand up for the world's poorest people. We fight for the full funding of Millennium Development Goals and advocate meaningful change to government and corporate policies that block progress and entrench injustice.

For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the heritage of slavery, overpopulation - for why Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American or European elections. They don't make donations to political parties or hire lobbyists in D.C., London or Canberra.

Our elected officials would do well to remember that the most prosperous countries are those that allow consumers - not governments - to direct the use of resources. Allowing the government to pick winners and losers hurts almost everyone, especially our poorest citizens.

Going to Liberia really changed a lot for me. I didn't realize what was happening on the same planet. My understanding that in the world everything is interconnected really grew - to go to one of the poorest countries from one of the richest countries in the world. It was two worlds apart.

Social services, not wealth per se, seem to be the key to lower birth rates. The Chinese, although among the poorest peoples of the world, have brought their fertility rate down to 2.4, partly by social coercion, but mostly by broadly available education, health care and family planning.

Debt vultures are really the scum at the bottom of the pond. These are guys who buy up the debts of the world's poorest countries on the secondary market. You can go buy debts of a country like Peru, for example, at a real discount. Why? Because people think that the debts won't be repaid.

We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements.

We all would like to see a brighter future for Haiti, and I hope this conference will serve to explore many views. Respect for human rights, freedom, and the rule of law must be established in the poorest nation in our hemisphere.

The saddest fact of climate change - and the chief reason we should be concerned about finding a proper response - is that the countries it will hit hardest are already among the poorest and most long-suffering.

Every human heart cries and yearns for the same thing: a chance to fulfill his or her own dreams and desires. Even the poorest man has a dream.

Especially some of the poorest in our society need to have the greatest support because health inequalities are too wide.

Growing economies are critical; we will never be able to end poverty unless economies are growing. We also need to find ways of growing economies so that the growth creates good jobs, especially for young people, especially for women, especially for the poorest who have been excluded from the economic system.

Companies like Husk Power Systems are working to impact positively not only the environment, but to ensure that someday everyone, including the poorest of the poor in rural India, will have access to clean and affordable electricity.

There is no doubt that the world economy is in trouble. But if governments or individuals use this as an excuse to reduce assistance to the world's poorest people, they will only multiply the seriousness of the problem for the world as a whole.

Originally created to serve the poorest and sickest among us, the Medicaid program has grown dramatically but still doesn't include the kind of flexibility that states need to provide better health care for the poor and disadvantaged.

A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.

If we want to talk about Gross Natural Product, we have to talk about the King of Bhutan's index of Gross National Happiness, too. Certainly I have found, as many travellers before me, that people in the poorest places are often the readiest to shower me, from an affluent country, with hospitality and kindness.

Any mechanism that will ensure benefits to consumer, any mechanism that will ensure that we do not waste food grains, any mechanism that helps the poorest of the poor is a welcome step.

We believe that the poorest nations of the world continue to look to Ireland to set the global standard for commitment to development aid, ... We also believe that there is a substantial support among the Irish people for a compelling and world-leading target, which will express their commitment to a more just and compassionate world.

We would probably say it's a mistake. You get kind of short-term satisfaction on the part of the university, but in the long run, you mostly hurt poor people. ... Basically, there's a negative economic impact on the poorest people, and it doesn't affect government policy or the people running the government.

Waiting. Waiting. What would you do if your family was starving and you saw people dying in the streets? 'Love thy neighbor.' Didn't I read that somewhere? The real war is not in Iraq, but right here in America. It's the War on Poverty, and it's a war that's been ignored and lost. An estimated 37 million Americans are living in poverty. New Orleans is one of the poorest cities in the country, with 40 percent of its children living in poverty. Mississippi has the highest poverty rate of any state. We've repeatedly given tax cuts to the wealthiest and left our most vulnerable American citizens to basically fend for themselves.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

The best food I've ever eaten in my life has come from the poorest communities.

The poorest of the poor, who were assigned to a plan automatically, were the ones who had to test a system. And the system didn't work.

The poorest of the poor have been hit the hardest by Katrina. Shouldn't we consider not cutting Medicaid $10 billion? Because that is where the money goes, to the poorest of the poor. Cut student loans? Food stamps? These are cuts to the very programs that survivors of Katrina need,

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter, the rain may enter -- but the King of England cannot enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!

The poorest country in South America, Bolivia, had been devastated by neoliberal economic policies.

The poorest 40 percent of Hawaii residents, those with incomes under $31,000, would receive only 20 percent of the benefits of the tax-cut bill.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are / that every street and blind alley swarms with them / that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance / that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains / how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. / I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lifting the debt burden from the poorest countries in the world brightens their prospects enormously. This is an achievement of historic proportions.

Lent is, in the end, through alms giving, the occasion for sincere sharing of gifts received with one's brothers and for attention to the needs of the poorest and abandoned ones.

LEAP is intended to help low-income residents pay their bills, not cover the whole amount. Of course, for the poorest of the poor, those with little or no income, we try to cover as much as possible.

Mississippi desperately needs it. We don't have the luxury of oil companies behind us like Louisiana. We're still the poorest state in the nation,

Medicaid is a victim of its own success. The program has grown so expansive that it is unsustainable in its current form, ... The reforms we are offering on Thursday will help to save the program while at the same time protecting the poorest of our society.

Of course, aid is only one small part of international development. Some of the greatest benefits to the world's poorest can be achieved through policy changes by developed countries.

Obviously Foothills took control in the beginning. I think we had the poorest first half we've had this year. But they played brilliant soccer, they deserve credit. Certainly this hurts right now, but it can't damper what was an amazing season.

If we don't make it at this meeting it's not a time to give up. It's a very promising initiative not only for the poorest as such but for the whole development community.

If these amendments become law, it will harm the well-being of Chad's poorest and most vulnerable citizens and represent a material breach of the original agreement.

I believe there is no other way to create decent livelihoods for the world's poorest people than to connect them to global markets as producers, and on fair terms.

I don't think it was so much what they did better (than Saturday night) as what we didn't do very well. It was just a bad game by us on all counts. It was the poorest of the year by far.

Given the uncertainty on both service provider and corporate IT spending, visibility is the poorest in several years. We expect Cisco to be cautious on its near-term outlook despite indications that business in some segments has improved.

What we have decided today, conscious of the poverty that we face, is a decision of 100 percent debt cancellation for the poorest countries backed up by greater trade justice, by a doubling of European aid, by a commitment to provide AIDS treatments for people by 2010,

Hollingsworth supposedly sees the building as unsafe. The Vestry is also aware that Cleveland Clinic wants the property for their own expansion. The sale would benefit the diocese. This priest urged the Vestry to go public. They seem reluctant to do so. The parish is current on all assessments. While very small, the parish has a rooted history in the diocese and serves the poorest of the community in outreach. The parish was combined from two parishes to one community several years ago. Clark Grew treated the parish with great love and care. Hollingsworth is very unpredictable and seems to be offering solutions to a problem the vestry does not see as existing. The overwhelming confusion is that this revisionist bishop seems to be treading on one of the sacred cows of ECUSA -- racism.

Under normal conditions, Somalia is one of the poorest and most food insecure countries in the world, and these are not normal conditions. It is a humanitarian crisis - it is a food crisis, a water crisis, a health crisis and a protection crisis.

I think the only thing the government can do in a concrete way is to look at the supplementary revenues we have with the GST and ... return them to the poorest people of our society who have to pay more for their energy bill in general,

Our veterans deserve more, especially down here, where we're the poorest in the nation. We're treated like dirt.

Pine Ridge is simply the poorest census tract in the nation, ... The main business on the reservation is a gas station. All of the housing is HUD housing, Indian housing, which is in many cases deplorable.

President Bush and Prime Minister Blair made great progress and Gordon Brown and John Snow agreed on an excellent proposal for debt cancellation for many of the poorest countries.

Our nation must be fair to the poorest among us, so we will increase aid to needy Americans to cope with rising energy prices ... .

Some of the poorest developing countries lack the resources, for example, to pay farmers adequately to get rid of sick chickens.

Marginal changes won't suffice. We need more than that for an agreement. They need to address the double problem of this proposal: It gives too little to the poorest countries and too much to Britain. The key issue today is how we finance enlargement and the related question of the British rebate.

We live in this era that has benefited from the Industrial Revolution, and we live with a kind of luxury and plenty that even all but the poorest of Americans live with a kind of sensuousness that was unimagined by medieval kings. But in order to get to this point, a lot of people had to suffer in really terrible ways.

That's the poorest shooting night we've had all year. The open looks we had when we broke their pressure just didn't go in. We had more balls roll off the rim tonight than I've seen in any practice or game all year.

Most companies that are interested in working in the poorest places don't know how to do it right now, ... don't know how we fit in the broader scheme. This provides a framework where all of this makes sense. The private initiative can get this process going. I am counting not only on financing, but technology and ideas. There's going to be a tremendous amount of learning about best approaches.

We can see no justification from taking away public parkland from the poorest congressional district and handing it over to the richest sports franchise in the country.

We can see no justification for taking away public parkland from the poorest congressional district to hand it over to the richest sports franchise in the country.

Well, we've worked with our friends in Haiti to establish nothing short of a modern medical center in one of the poorest parts of that country.

We have allowed to exist the idea that only the poorest Americans shop at Wal-Mart. Shame on us. We have people from all walks of life who shop at Wal-Mart stores.

We had one of the poorest shooting nights of the season. We got down early and we were never able to bounce back. We made a little run at the end but there's only so much you can do.

Today's decision will ensure that urgently needed resources are made available now in the world's poorest countries to tackle poverty and provide essential health and education.

We need to figure out why our public education system is failing to ignite the learning process in some of the poorest students, ... When it comes to education, people want silver bullets, they want magic tools, and technology sure looks like that magic bullet to a lot of people.

The problem is that while wiping it out in our own backyard, we left it to run riot in some of the world's poorest countries. We shut the gate and forgot the millions behind it, dying, with no money for a cure.

The quality of earnings is the poorest in my career.

The polio-eradication initiative has shown the world that even in the poorest countries, widespread and debilitating disease can be defeated.

The overarching global imperative to work to combat poverty ... must gain added urgency today when HIV-AIDS, conflict and other catastrophes are helping to reverse years of development gains in the poorest countries,

Those other diseases didn't simply go away. They tended to be buried in at-risk populations who were the poorest and most marginalized.

The existing system has many good features but it could be fairer. The existing system is least fair to the poorest students -- that has to change,

What we've already got is the 100 percent debt write-off for the poorest countries. It's already achieved, we've won it. We've got a doubling of aid from Europe that's to build schools and hospitals, particularly in Africa. That's already agreed. The next stage, over the next few days, is to see if we can go further.

We launched this program just over two weeks ago. Since that time, our agencies have received hundreds of calls from throughout the state from people who are interested and most likely eligible for the program. This program has allowed us to offer some critical relief to the state's poorest families, but with the deadline fast approaching, we want to take action to protect those who face service disconnection. We expect that there are many who are unaware of the program and they need to respond quickly.

We ask Mother to pray for each of us ... so that we may love the poorest of the poor -- in our families and in our neighborhood,

Yes, we will face pressure on the prices of goods but the President has put the entire Cabinet on notice to focus on measures to stabilize prices and firm up the safety nets for the poorest sectors,

What this storm has done has wrecked the lives and the economy of what could arguably be one of the poorest areas of America with one of the blackest populations. As I look around, whether it's Iowa or Arizona, at the far-flung places to which people are being sent, for the short term at least, I think it's going to be a national lesson in diversity.

What does it say about their priorities and their values that they tax the poorest families ... as their preferred solution to escape the budgetary mess they created for themselves.

We think it would usher in a period in which employers are increasingly weaned off of exploiting illegal aliens, and wages and working conditions for the poorest would increase.

Before Katrina hit New Orleans, it was already one of the poorest places in the country, ... I think it is right to gather and look at an agenda for more equitable distribution of wealth in America, at what are we going to do about affordable housing and education.

Cuts that Congress is considering to HUD's budget would deprive 97,000 people of jobs, 156,000 families of affordable housing and 16,000 families and individuals who are homeless or who have AIDS of vital housing assistance, ... At a time of unprecedented national prosperity, Congress shouldn't rob the poorest Americans to provide reckless tax cuts and create a new deficit.

County, state and federal funding is down, patient needs have reached an all time high as the nation's poorest are unable to obtain health care insurance, and emergency medicine physicians are struggling to keep up with patient demand, especially in the absence of compensation.

Due to the groundbreaking work of PIH, the global community has moved from asking 'should' antiretroviral treatment be provided to people living with HIV/AIDS in the poorest countries to demanding to know 'when' it will happen and 'how' to do it most effectively.

Few consumers realize that the cheap prices they pay are directly linked to the exploitation of some of the poorest people on earth and the destruction of their forests.

The total impact of the Tory/Liberal tax, welfare and public spending changes has hit the poorest 10% in society disproportionately hard - and women have been affected even more badly than men.

The Yankees have been here for 82 years already and we haven't seen any benefits. It's a land grab in the poorest congressional district in the country for the richest sports franchise.

These are some of the poorest countries with the weakest health indicators in the world. People are pretty cynical when they look at Africa, but these countries have turned it around.

the same as Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

... I've seen it around the world, in the poorest countries and in countries riven with conflict, ... It is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty, breaking out of stagnation. ... It's women who can contribute to achieving real security -- not bombs and bullets and repressive governments.

The situation is extremely serious. In the next day or so all bread supplies will dry up. There is very little else around in terms of rice, which is also short in supply. Bread is the staple diet for Palestinians. It is also the food the poorest people so if that's not available people will start to go hungry.

The smaller areas are the ones that are off the radar screen. There is devastation all around. People who are from the poorest of the of the poor communities have very limited access, if any, to the services.

The Sussex County I grew up in is as foreign as Mongolia, ... the poorest people often lived in the most glorious of places.

Sometimes our definitions fall short. Take, for example, the way we view income and labor. It simply doesn't cover enough of the work that women, and in particular poor women, are doing - especially in their own households and the vast 'informal' economy in which most of the world's poorest people work.

Programs aimed strictly at the poorest Americans are always and forever under assault from a Republican Party that still has not dared to cut spending on programs - like Medicare and crop insurance - that also benefit the rich.

After all the brinkmanship this is good news. It's good news because it will make a real difference to some of the world's poorest people.

Bad science is being used to drive bad policy. And that policy is resulting in the large-scale dispossession of some of the poorest people on the planet.

As major stakeholders of U.S. foreign assistance, we are very concerned that the interests of the world's poorest remain paramount in the planning process.

As one of the poorest cities in America, our hearts are with those people who are without,