Here is the problem: Poor Americans consume too little healthcare, especially preventive healthcare. Other Americans—often rich Americans—consume too much healthcare, often unwisely, and sometimes to their detriment. The American healthcare system combines famine with gluttony.

If the basic structure of Grameen is changed, the worry is that the poor women who are the rightful owners of the bank will be disenfranchised.

Regular people are used to rudeness; we get it all the time, we’re inured to it. The wealthy aren’t; it hurts their feelings, or whatever they have in there.

Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.

A rich person is just a poor person with a crown and elaborate clothing, and a poor person is just a rich person with a crownless head and ragged clothing.

His August Majesty chided the bureaucrats for failing to understand a simple principle: the principle of the second bag. Because the people never revolt just because they have to carry a heavy load, or because...

Real Men can commit to 1 person. Only boys are “Players”, pimps usually get lock up or die at the end of movies, & dogs catch fleas!

There is today a division of labor between the elite and the masses. In medieval Europe aristocrats spent their money carelessly on extravagant luxuries whereas peasants lived frugally minding every penny. Today the tables have...

In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses.

The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world’s poor.

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,’ I says, ‘but don’t insult me poor bleedin’ country.

The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.

It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never...

Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks – people without resources or options.

As a spiritual leader, you are here to serve; not to be served. Stop robbing the poor. Jesus came to serve.

The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor individual looks around him at every step, listens suspiciously to every word he hears from the people he meets;...

Compromise is low class. I don’t have anything against the poor, but being low class is the root of all evil

[There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of ‘democracy’ and ‘equality’ – they’re the casualties of the primitive rules of competition which run our society, and the welfare state just keeps them...

Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there is of any resource the less you can charge for it. The more...

Life punishes those who have things in abundance by making them worry about petty things like: what to wear, or, which car to drive.

Do not inquire he name if him who asks a shelter of you. The very man who’s embarrassed by his name is the one who needs shelter

We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won

We have the best rats in town!

When people have poor confidence in the future, you can be confident of a poor future.

And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke’s palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to make the best of things, are only the rich without money,...

They’ve got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.

The emptiness of your pocket is not a recipe for you to discount the value of your passion!

It’s what you do in your free time that will set you free—or enslave you.

One thing that improved my cooking skills was being a poor student in California… If you don’t have much money, you have to learn to cook.

I have learned in life to be happy regardless of life circumstancesI have learned in life to be humble in greatnessI have learned in life to respect everyone and not to look down upon othersI...

More often than not, it’s the poor who find themselves content with what they have because they come to the realization of the difference between having something they need and something they want.

If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illiterate but because they cannot retain the returns of their labor. They...

Some patient dogs had waited a long time for the fatest bone to come, but the impatient had gone to scavenge for the little it could see.

Poor people do not go on holiday; they go home.

Just as the Japanese pioneered a new form of manufacturing – lean production and quite new standards of reliability – so Tata, too, is embracing new forms of manufacture in order to revolutionise the price...

Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.

Fortune, that arrant whore,Ne’er turns the key to th’poor.

Besides being a prime cause of poor economic growth, poor governance breeds corruption, which cripples investment, wastes resources, and diminishes confidence.

When you’re poor, you don’t want anyone to know you’re poor.

Unfortunately for him he looked more like an innocent man on America’s terror watch-list rather than a gallant Viking possessing all the benefits of modernity. More like a villain in a Western fairy tale with...

When I see a poor person I think of me, and then I think, maybe I should pay my clones for all the work they do for me. Then I think, nah, they’re only slaves....

Frequently give up some of your property by giving it with a generous heart to the poor … It is true that God will repay us not only in the next world but even in...

Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need, though it be your example which leaves them far behind. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon...

You’ve got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than...

If you want to help a hungry poor man sleeping on the bench, don’t ever wake him up; put the food on the bench, put some money and leave the place without looking at your...

I was 10th of 11 kids in an alcoholic, abusive, poor family. We all want things that we can’t have. And I found comedy.

In fifteen hundred years someone will figure out a way to squeeze black juice out of the yellow sand, and that will get everyone very excited. Some people who were rich already will get a...

For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one’s survival.

The rich spend their life living; the poor spend their life making a living.

The Paralympics have for too long been considered the poor cousin of the Olympics. It’s always run after the main games and rarely gets anything like the media coverage.