Poverty In America Quotes

• ...Poverty in America today leads not only to anxiety, unhappiness, discomfort and a lack of material goods. It leads to death. Poverty in America today is a death sentence for tens and tens of thousands of our people.

  Bernie Sanders

  America, People, Anxiety

  "Is Poverty a Death Sentence?" by Sen. Bernie Sanders, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2011.

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• In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when the official U.S. measure of poverty was developed in 1963, a poor American family had an income twenty-nine times greater than the average per capita income in the rest of the world. An individual American could make more money than 93 percent of the other people on the planet and still be considered poor.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Average, America, Long

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.127, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Wages never seem to go up. The whole economy feels stuck, and millions of Americans, millions of Americans, middle-class security is now just a memory. Progressives like to talk like Barack Obama likes to talk forever about poverty in America. And if a talk did any good, we'd have overcome those deep problems long ago. This explains why under the most liberal president we have had so far, poverty in America is worse, especially for our fellow citizens who were promised better and who need it most.

  Paul Ryan

  Memories, Long Ago, Class

  Fuente: www.foxnews.com

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• There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Inicio, Realidad, América

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• En Inglaterra, un inventor es considerado casi como un loco, y en demasiados casos la invención termina en decepción y pobreza. En América, un inventor es honrado, se le ayuda, y el ejercicio del ingenio, la aplicación de la ciencia al trabajo del hombre, es allí el camino más corto hacia la riqueza.

  Oscar Wilde

  Disappointment, Crazy, Exercise

  Oscar Wilde, Merlin Holland (2003). “Collins complete works of Oscar Wilde”, HarperCollins UK

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• Mis padres no eran materialistas. Creían que el dinero sin conocimiento no valía nada, que la educación templada con la religión era la manera de salir de la pobreza en Estados Unidos, y con los años se demostró que tenían razón.

  James McBride

  Years, America, Parent

  James McBride (2012). “The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother”, p.21, A&C Black

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• The greatest poverty in America today is time poverty. People have money, but they don't have time.

  Brian Tracy

  America, People, Today

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• Social Security is meant to be - to make sure that no one who's worked hard, and played by the rules, and paid into the system grows old in poverty in America.

  Chris Christie

  America, Poverty, Social

  Chris Christie at GOP primary debate in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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