Country Quote by Barney Frank

“Ah, yes, poverty," said Chatterjee and smiled as if the word had deeply ironic connotations. "Indeed, there is much poverty here. Much squalor by…

— Dan Simmons

My president will boldly throw 1 million into poverty.

— Charles Rangel

“Poverty is a condition that resides in the heart . . . not in the wallet.”

— Jo Ann V. Glim

Poverty is rather a state of mind. No man who possess this mentality can outwardly command abundance.

— Ore Abayomi

Mitt Romney said he's not concerned about the very poor. What he means is people making less than a million.

— David Letterman

Hunger, disease and poverty can lead to global instability and leave a vacuum for extremism to fill. So instead of just managing poverty, we…

— Barack Obama

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Poverty has a way of taking the edge off principles. Hunger can blunt them altogether.”

— Paula Brackston

“Lack of money is no poverty.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“The absence of money doesn’t mean poverty.”

— Benh Zeitlin

It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

— Seneca the Younger