Colombia Quote by Juan Manuel Santos

There's an awful lot of white British kids who have never really gone hungry, always had a roof to live under but at the…

— Richey Edwards

Most poor people live in the poorest countries.

— Bill Gates

We are one of the richest countries in the world, and there is absolutely no reason why anyone should have to live in poverty.

— Jeremy Corbyn

For whatever reason, in this country we have a very interesting relationship with poverty, where we think people in poverty are bad people.

— Michael Tubbs

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

You meet folks who are funny and really smart and persistent and loving that are confronting this thing we call poverty, which is just…

— Matthew Desmond

Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things.

— Damian Marley

People who live in poor countries have to be entrepreneurial even just to survive.

— Ha-Joon Chang

We are living in the richest country in the history of the world, yet we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost…

— Bernie Sanders

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

— Jane Austen

Everyone's seen poverty - well, most have.

— Ghostface Killah