Growing up, we were a poor yet tightknit family. My mother worked multiple jobs and always made sure that her kids never had to want for anything.

I've always said that punk is a time and money thing. You can only be punk if you're poor and you're young. It's for the poor, it's for the young.

I grew up in Manchester, and we were very poor. My father was a miner who joined the Navy during the war and developed a lung disease and had to have a lung removed.

Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are usually in a poor position to fix them.

Austerity is devastating these communities. The working poor, public sector workers, the disabled, and the vulnerable are the hardest hit by this bankrupt and ideologically driven policy.

There is growing inequality. The families of the all-powerful Ministers are getting richer. The poor and hard-working Belizeans are getting poorer.

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

Historically, software for business was seen as unsexy because the products were seen as so poor - they provided such a poor user experience.

The government is more responsive to wealthy communities than poor communities, and to wealthy people than poor people.

We are not Marxist or capitalist; we are for the poor people.

You know, when you're poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don't know that everybody's not poor.

I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Payday loans are but one of many financial techniques - from overdraft fees to student loans subsidizing for-profit colleges - specifically designed to pull money from the pockets of the poor. This problem generally goes unrecognized by policy makers.

Defensively, I could be a lot better; my decision-making at times can be a bit poor.

Zef is, you're poor, but you're fancy. You're poor, but you're sexy; you've got style.

Standing with the poor means walking away from unethical leaders, even when their companies are 'succeeding.'

We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfather grew up. He grew up during the Depression in Riverside.

Most poor people live in the poorest countries.

Helping the poor doesn't mean redistributing the wealth. It means removing the breaks that give the wealthy an advantage so huge that big chunks of the nation's income are automatically removed from individual economic competition.