America Quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower

Back then, we didn't know we were poor, and people were more proud then.

— Loretta Lynn

We didn't know we were poor because that's how everyone around us lived.

— Eric Adams

I don't see evidence of America being a poorer country than it was 20 years ago. I've seen impoverished devastation. I've seen places where…

— P. J. O'Rourke

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

— Oscar Wilde

I was the kind of poor where I knew right away I had less than everyone around me. Our environment, our physical space reflected…

— Viola Davis

part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not…

— Anna Quindlen

I was one of the poorest people in America.

— Tom Noddy

This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have…

— Faye Wattleton

For most of history, almost everyone was poor. Power and wealth belonged to only a few.

— Marco Rubio

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

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We were rather poor, but we always had what we needed.

— Debbie Reynolds

Everyone was poor. We were satisfied with a life that was simple and humble. We were a peaceful, open people.

— Nadia Murad