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Our nation is built on a proud history of providing refuge for the poor, persecuted, and disenfranchised.

One of the things I found is that no matter where in the country - poor communities, rich communities - everybody deals with very similar issues of bullying. It's pretty widespread.

The worst thing to be in America and anywhere on the planet is poor.

Racism is an issue in America but is primarily an issue for the poor. It's not LeBron James' issue.

The fact that rich people get free stuff and poor people have to pay, it's backwards.

Batman puts rich people in handcuffs, he puts poor people in the hospital, but we're supposed to consider him the hero.

Too often, our most vulnerable students - English-language learners, immigrants, poor kids, teenage parents, students with behavioral problems and learning disabilities - fall through the cracks.

The federal government has an exceptionally poor record of behaving responsibly with Americans' personal information when entrusted with it.

One of the reasons why good actors are good is that they have poor impulse control. If you put them in front of a camera, they respond as if it was actually happening, in real time, rather than doing it after several takes.

In Paris, where I live, the inner neighborhoods are only available to the white elite. The poor and dispossessed are shuffled out to suburbs and never seen.

In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.'

There's nothing worse in television than what I call 'poor man's Jerry Bruckheimer.'

The poor people of the world tend to be the places that al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups can recruit.

It became clear I wanted to be a development economist. I mean, I said I wanted to work on the economics of poor countries. And I'd actually say that I don't think that was so much about narrowing the gap as about increasing their incomes, which means economic growth, which is really my prime interest.

Growing richer every day, for as rich and poor are relative terms, when the rich are growing poor, it is pretty much the same as if the poor were growing rich. Nobody is poor when the distinction between rich and poor is destroyed.

What makes tar sands particularly odious is that the energy you get out in the end, per unit carbon dioxide, is poor. It's equivalent to burning coal in your automobile.

I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington.

Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part of the world.

My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that call and so we never had much money.

We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in the Great Depression from the stories I hear people tell. Everybody was poor and so we didn't know that we were any different from anybody else.

Unfortunately, some of our poor choices are irreversible, but many are not. Often, we can change course and get back on the right track.