Dick Gephardt Quotes

I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.

My family, like many families here in South Carolina, have faced difficult financial situations.

In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

This is a wonderful year for raw truth. We don't have any money.

Now we've got lots of freedom and no money.

Financial problems cause distress and loss of self-respect.

We were under a lot of financial pressure when I was growing up.

My parents were very strapped for cash when we were growing up.

I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

I was pretty poor for a long time. Not *poor* poor. But college student poor. I lived for most of my adult life living on student wages, then after I got my MA and started teaching, I lived on teacher's wages, which isn't much better.

Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

We sometime didn't get enough to buy oats for our horses. Most banks had very little money in them.

When you have a family, or even when you're just seeing a girl, it's difficult to be skint.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

I've, we have in this state, like many other states, we're experiencing an enormous budget deficit that we're trying to grapple with. But we will have progress despite the deficits.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Money is a never-ending problem.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry.

I toured a lot in the U.K. and Europe solo for a lack of funds, really. I left people I'd been playing with for years at home, just because I couldn't afford it.

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.