Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty.
We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.
Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has played an enormous and necessary role in keeping Latinas out of poverty.
For a long time, rich countries have promised to reduce poverty but have failed to match their words with adequate action. Of course, some important progress has been made and millions of lives have been saved, but millions more could be saved.
The absence of state capacity - that is, of the services and protections that people in rich countries take for granted - is one of the major causes of poverty and deprivation around the world.
It's as if we live in a house which has a vast treasury in one of its rooms. Only we've forgotten about it. So, instead of living a life of royalty, we go about in poverty.
Poverty and lack of education are ruining our planet.
There was a rumour that I was buying Gibson. It circulated around the Internet... And I just go, 'How well off do you think I am?' I play blues-rock for a living. It's like a vow of poverty.
The poverty found in rural areas has some characteristics that are very different from the poverty found in inner cities.
Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.
Safeguarding our common home is not only essential to protecting endangered species and preserving old-growth forests, it is also paramount to ending poverty, fighting injustice, and protecting the long-term survival of humankind and of our faith.
I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.
Iain Duncan Smith and his regime, they wanted to make the poor suffer and then humiliated them by telling them that their poverty was their own fault and, to demonstrate that, if you're not up to mark then you're sanctioned and the money stops.
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
We think the way out of poverty is to view the poor as producers, and the Internet is probably the most efficient tool we have for tapping this capacity. Because you don't need roads. You don't need customs officials who are friendly. You don't need to manage shipping and delivery schedules. You don't have to worry about tariffs.
Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.
Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty.
Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.
If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.