Uncertainty is not an indication of poor leadership; it underscores the need for leadership.
A sure indicator of true religion is a concern for the poor of the earth.
You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.
Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.
I would say I'm a fiscal conservative and a social liberal, if that contradiction can make sense, because in Bolivia, we have a great problem, which is the inequity of income distribution. The rich aren't that rich, but the poor are very poor.
Most poor families are living completely unassisted in a private rental market, devoting most of their income to housing. When you meet people who are spending 70, 80 percent of their income on rent, eviction becomes much more of an inevitability than the result of personal irresponsibility.
I just love cars; I've been like that since I was a kid. It's an infatuation because we grew up poor. Cars was something we were always trying to get.
The privileged Victorians who did most to improve the lives of the poor were not ashamed of their pious intent: they were superiors seeking to help inferiors.
The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.
India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.
I believe well-designed places and objects can actually improve healing, while poor design can inhibit it.
Experience shows that the reliance on illegal, immoral, and inhumane interrogation techniques is universally a very poor choice.
We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.
As an economist specializing in the global economy, international trade and debt, I have spent most of my career helping others make big decisions - prime ministers, presidents and chief executives - and so I'm all too aware of the risks and dangers of poor choices in the public as well as the private sphere.
Nationalism makes us poor because its Siamese twin, protectionism, will destroy the internal market and disrupt international trade.
In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely called upon to mete out capital punishment. The right to take human life belongs to the state. Not so in societies where weak courts and poor law enforcement are combined with intractable structural injustices.
Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.
As I was researching, I was struck by how similar the Boxers were to Joan of Arc. Joan was basically a French Boxer. She was a poor teenager who wanted to do something about the foreign aggressors invading her homeland.
Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.
