Patrick J. Kennedy Quotes

Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.

We are not strangers to poverty in New Mexico.

You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fed with cattle feed - people don't get paid for half a year.

I've still got family members living below the poverty line in New York.

It is simply not credible to tackle child poverty without acknowledging the worst issue - a lack of money.

Half of the world lives on [about] $2 a day. If there is a hungry kid in the world, we shouldn't consider ourselves more evolved than homo habilis.

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

Poverty is on the increase - due to welfare cuts - and demand for food banks has rocketed.

America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty.

There are many Asian-Americans who are living in poverty, especially our senior citizens.

U.K. welfare cuts are pushing more children into poverty; that is beyond dispute.

Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.

The United States is a leader across a broad range of scientific disciplines. Our technological prowess is part of our greatness as a nation. Sadly, among the rich industrialized nations, we also lead by a substantial margin in the rate of poverty among children.

When upmarket shops like Waitrose collect contributions for local food banks, they serve as a constant reminder to those of my constituents who are lucky enough not to have to worry about where their next meal will come from that those less fortunate than themselves are increasing in number, and suffering more than ever.

In a country like Mexico, you can't forget about poverty - about how half of the population lives in poverty, and how half of that half live in extreme poverty.

There's a lot of journalism about poverty, but sometimes it just helps to see that there's a real person who becomes a real mom, who is working with unsustainable wages that could eventually destroy her.

Many people assume that since New Jersey is a wealthy state with a high per capita income that a lot of these issues of poverty and hunger don't exist, and the fact is that they do.

One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.

Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor

Poverty has strange bedfellows.

Our opponents say more children are living in poverty than when we came into office. And that's probably right.

There is no good way of measuring poverty.

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.

We're also going to fix our inner cities. Forty-five percent of African-American children are - under the age six - are living in poverty.