Country Quote by Faye Wattleton

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that…

— Anonymous

We decided in the mid-1960s that all poor people are the same: they are all poor. We know they're poor because we have defined…

— Charles Murray

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves…

— Muhammad Yunus

So here is the Great Society. It's the time - and it's going to be soon - when nobody in this country is poor.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country a nice…

— Irving Kristol

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

— Christian Nestell Bovee

The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a…

— Gerald F. Lieberman

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable

— Seneca the Younger

There is no country on earth that has done more for our own poor and for the poor around the world. We are not…

— Rush Limbaugh