At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

I came from a poor family in Coney Island. I learned to write by reading the 'Post.' This was my education.

I think one of the laughable things about poor old Brexit is that they're so cross - they're furious with everyone. But this isn't a cross country; this is a generous and optimistic country.

I'm actually interested in poor behavior. I'm interested in what drives people to poor behavior.

I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

One year's poor form remains a blip but if it happens next year, you can say it's a trend.

The bottom line on the Hyde Amendment is that it is directly, in effect, targeting poor women and women who don't have money.

Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.

Poor governance affects us all - entrepreneurs, homemakers, farmers, labourers, whatever identities we might have.

During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.

My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.

Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire their refusal to look down on the least among us, but at some level, that can become an excuse to never really look at the problem at all.

I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.

I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.

Growing up, I was poor. In college, I was poor. I never had anything.

Nationalism makes us poor because its Siamese twin, protectionism, will destroy the internal market and disrupt international trade.

You don't want to burden some poor wretch with the entire story of your life.

Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?