Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
We are prophetic interrogators. Why are so many people hungry? Why are so many people and families in our shelters? Why do we have one of six of our children poor, and one of three of these are children of color? 'Why?' is the prophetic question.
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palin's ignorance of public affairs is monumental.
I'm a product of public housing. My parents grew up poor, but their dream was to own a home.
Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
Making the best of things is... a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.
I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
This is a pattern-bargaining industry, like railroads. You need to pay market to get a contract at all, and without contracts, you have a poor relationship with workers.
The American media produce a product of very poor quality. Its information is not reliable, it has too much chrome and glitz, its doors rattle, it breaks down almost immediately, and it's sold without warranty. It's flashy, but it's basically junk.
I've always stood on one fact - that all over the world, there are only two things, the Establishment and the poor people. The poor people are a massive majority and across the world they are exploited in different kinds of ways. The Establishment depends on exploiting raw materials and the poor.
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
Unfortunately, in a recession, the people who suffer the most aren't the rich, but the wanna-be rich and the poor.
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.
I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using recycled materials and only hiring unskilled labor.
Even when we think or talk about recycling, lots of recyclable stuff ends up getting incinerated or in landfills and leaving many municipalities, diversion rates - they leave much to be recycled. And where is this waste handled? Usually in poor communities.
A safety net for the poor indeed requires some level of income redistribution.
You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.
Do we want more of the same regulatory mission creep that has helped to harm America's poor and middle class? Do we want more of the policies that have stifled growth? Or do we want something else, something different, something that focuses on the need to reevaluate the size, the scope, the cost, the reach of the federal government?