It was the '70s when mediocrity came in Hindi films. That's when the actor called Rajesh Khanna joined the industry. For all his success, I think Mr. Khanna was a very limited actor. In fact, he was a poor actor.

A great artist is never poor.

Shockingly, the Government Accountability Institute has reported that the 2008 and 2012 Obama campaigns received questionable contributions of more than $500 million as a result of poor disclosure requirements.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Too often, while well-intentioned, our poverty programs fail the poor. They fail them by keeping them in cycles of dependency.

I hated Peter O'Toole. I wanted to kill that guy! When they said he was dead, I was happy. People said, 'Poor Peter O'Toole.' I was happy!

These poor kids in Baghdad have no running water, no showers. They wipe with baby wipes. My heart goes out to them.

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

Unfortunately, in a recession, the people who suffer the most aren't the rich, but the wanna-be rich and the poor.

I wish I had a dollar for every pro-choicer who told me that abortion has to be accessible for poor women... as if being poor makes you an unfit mother.

We have ended the VIP culture in Delhi. We made additional night shelters for the poor. We have started the anti-corruption helpline. We are impartial and are not against anybody.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

I never forgot being poor, and I never stopped thinking how fortunate I am.

When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen.

When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of what came out of Britain and America. I was all set to abandon it entirely.

What is poor? We had food. We dressed well. We didn't have a lot, but what we had fit, and it was always neat.

Studies show that recipients of Section 8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not low-poverty neighborhoods.

It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.