Anatole France Quotes

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.

A poor man is a man who has not got much money. This may seem a simple and unnecessary description, but in the face of a great mass of modern fact and fiction, it seems very necessary indeed; most of our realists and sociologists talk about a poor man as if he were an octopus or an alligator.

I'm tired of people on trust funds telling people on food stamps how to live.

The poor will never cease out of the land.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up.

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.

The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

Never forget that there are rich people in poor countries and poor people in rich countries.

The biggest problem is that the rich people paying the bills do not share the same goals as the poor people they are trying to help. The wealthy have weak incentives to get the right amount of the right thing to those who need it; the poor are in no position to complain if they don’t.

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

Those of us who have been economically successful cannot forget those who have not.

I don't think they [Congress] ought to balance their budget on the backs of the poor.

If you are poor today, you will always be poor. Only the rich now acquire riches.

Poverty divide not only nations but societies within nations.

The poor should not have to learn how to be frugal and the rich should not have to learn to be extravagant.

Poor people don’t employ people; only rich people do.

These institutions are generally more skilled at getting rich off those living in the lower economic reaches than they are in preparing them for the job market.

I come from the poor people, and I have been here working my whole stinkin' career for people who don't have a chance, and I really resent anybody that says I'm doing it for the rich. Give me a break.

The poor don't want some small life. They don't want to game the system. They want to contribute, and they want to thrive. But poverty reduces people born for better things.