To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
Sallust
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However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.
Henry David Thoreau
That means the state's poorest seniors will have to pick up the tab for $216 million in prescription drugs.
Assemblyman Richard Gottfried
I write books to change the world. Perhaps I can only change one little piece of that world. But if I can empower teachers and good citizens to give these children, who are the poorest of the poor, the same opportunity we give our own kids, then I'll feel my life has been worth it.
Jonathan Kozol
These are some of the poorest countries with the weakest health indicators in the world. People are pretty cynical when they look at Africa, but these countries have turned it around.
Bruce Aylward
They are the poorest folks ... and they are the ones who are going to be left with nothing. It's going to show up at homeless shelters this winter.
Sheila Crowley
Water is basic to life and with this country being just a couple hours off of out border and being the poorest in the western hemisphere, it's really exciting to be able to go down there and just with a tiny amount of money be able to improve the lives of so many people.
Doug Schmitt
This is some of the debts of some of the world's poorest countries. And we have been campaigning for that 100 percent to be 100 percent of all the debts of all the world's poorest countries.
Stephen Rand
Before Katrina hit New Orleans, it was already one of the poorest places in the country, ... I think it is right to gather and look at an agenda for more equitable distribution of wealth in America, at what are we going to do about affordable housing and education.
Charles Barron
It was our poorest game, but you've got to give some of the credit to Novato as well. They seemed to have more energy than we did tonight. It's a credit to them.
Mike Boles
We can see no justification for taking away public parkland from the poorest congressional district to hand it over to the richest sports franchise in the country.
Joyce Hogi
The Census provides highs that are too low and lows that are too high. In effect, the Census income estimates artificially reduce the gap between the wealthiest and poorest Connecticut towns.
Wayne Villemez
The EU realized from the beginning that you can't have a community unless you lift the poorest up.
Robert Pastor
The Sussex County I grew up in is as foreign as Mongolia, ... the poorest people often lived in the most glorious of places.
Bill Chandler
You have a lot of oil and poverty. The released resources must help the population, in particular the poorest.
Pedro Alba
The message about Jesus Christ is for all people. The poorest people and the richest people. So we don't try to avoid areas.
James Russell Lowell
For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.
John J. Sweeney
The smaller areas are the ones that are off the radar screen. There is devastation all around. People who are from the poorest of the of the poor communities have very limited access, if any, to the services.
Paul Robinson
I don't think poor people--and the homeless are the poorest of people--have faith in the cops. Some of the cops really do look out for (homeless) people. Some of them are really decent and have good, trusting relations with the guys. But it cuts both ways.
Brian Flagg
The poorest of the poor, who were assigned to a plan automatically, were the ones who had to test a system. And the system didn't work.
Helene Nelson
It's the neediest, oldest, sickest, poorest group of folks.
Robert Hayes
It was really one of the poorest played first halves in IMS history. They were two very different halves. I was proud of the way we came back.
Dwight Gingerich
Dallas and Austin have the poorest rich kids on the block.
Scott Mccown
Aid workers are becoming increasingly concerned about the plight of the poorest people and their ability to acquire food from the markets ... There is a total scarcity of food.
Mike Huggins
When you begin to do things that raise the achievement of the poorest and disenfranchised students, you may not always get applause. You need to be ready for that.
Asa Hilliard
The country is so poor. It's one of the poorest nations in this hemisphere, with 60 to 70 percent of its population (approximately 8.1 million) illiterate.
Charles Marks
The main concern is jobs -- jobs, job, jobs. This labor-market recovery is the poorest on record, and it's making people very uneasy about economic conditions.
Asha Bangalore
Those other diseases didn't simply go away. They tended to be buried in at-risk populations who were the poorest and most marginalized.
Richard Keller
The poorest 40 percent of Hawaii residents, those with incomes under $31,000, would receive only 20 percent of the benefits of the tax-cut bill.
Jason Levitis
The polio-eradication initiative has shown the world that even in the poorest countries, widespread and debilitating disease can be defeated.
Patty Stonesifer
Bad science is being used to drive bad policy. And that policy is resulting in the large-scale dispossession of some of the poorest people on the planet.
Andrew Baird
After all the brinkmanship this is good news. It's good news because it will make a real difference to some of the world's poorest people.
Stephen Rand
I'm definitely, besides the guys collecting cans, the poorest guy here.
Herculez Gomez
They work with the poorest of the poor, ... If there's anything we've learned from Hurricane Katrina, it's that poverty exists in every community, and we're not doing enough about it. These sisters make it their mission.
Richard Garcia
Few consumers realize that the cheap prices they pay are directly linked to the exploitation of some of the poorest people on earth and the destruction of their forests.
Andy White
If the economy continues to crash, it is not the rich who suffer first, it's the poorest.
Guido Westerwelle
Our position was, we have the greatest athletes in the world and we ran the poorest business in the world. We are trying to get our business side up to par with our athletes.
Jim Shea Sr
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