Just replicate the social patterns that existed before the hurricane in a new location ... a hyper-concentration of poverty where people did not have easy access to good schools and quality jobs.

Bruce Katz

The sheer poverty was like nothing else we had ever seen before. It was to the point where people didn't want to leave because they had nothing else and nowhere to go.

Chris Lane

Black poverty has persisted and become intractable but unless we have some crisis like this, we basically forget about these people -- out of sight, out of mind.

Robert Harris

Latin America still shows very high levels of poverty and the most unequal distribution of income in the world.

Sebastian Briozzo

They need to talk to me and they need to talk to other support folks who are making poverty wages. Most of them are working so they can have health care benefits.

Sharon Scott

Afghanistan needs more than a quick fix ? it needs sustained and targeted support to help it out of its crushing poverty.

Vincent Charles

Real poverty is lack of books.

Sidonie Gabrielle

We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace.

Thomas R. Kelly

Reducing teen pregnancy and birth is one of the most effective ways of reducing child poverty in the country.

Jordan Brown

Asset accumulation plays a vital role in escaping poverty.

Cato Institute

We are living a dictatorship of the rich. I am happy that the rich and powerful call me anti-system if it is their system that keeps Peru in poverty and misery.

Ollanta Humala

A lot of it circles around poverty and not being able to afford housing.

Steve Weil

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

Maimonides

Doubling the frequency of attendance leads to a 9.1 percent increase in household income, or a rise of 5.5 percent as a fraction of the poverty scale.

Jonathan Gruber

Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

Thomas Robert Malthus

That's another way, perhaps, of an art poverty; one has to impoverish one's mind.

Carl Andre

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even the barest of minimum resources to address any of the public health crises that Africa faces.

Jeff Sachs

If people can agree that the last 40 years didn't help win the War on Poverty in New Orleans and the Gulf - and even hurt it - then the debate shifts into not replicating the last 40 years.

Mike Franc

More than 54 percent of the children in this county live in poverty, ... Twenty-two percent of births are to unwed teen-aged mothers and we are among the top counties in Alabama in the number of high school drop-outs.

David Potts

I am comfortably fixed, and I am not afraid of the future. No man can say what he will do in the future, but barring poverty the ring has seen the last of me.

Rocky Marciano

We believe that American workers are facing a historical crisis, ... There are 28 million Americans that went to work this morning who made less than the poverty level.

Bruce Raynor

When you look at a big city like Baltimore, you see crime, you see poverty, you see bad schools. When you begin to think about the predicament of cities, it's not an easy position to sell.

Marion Orr

What rich countries are offering right now is not nearly good enough. They should concentrate on what Africa needs to work its way out of poverty.

Mouhamet Lamine

It's high poverty. It's high English-language learners. It's a school with many challenges, and still they made their targets. We'll look at their successes.

Renae Dreier

We'll have opportunities to experience Appalachian culture and learn why poverty is an issue there. As I understand it, just 7,500 people live there and about 20 percent of them live below poverty level.

Jeff Schaffer

Money is only a vehicle that provides you with options, and I say there's only one thing that money can't buy - poverty.

Jerry Doyle

These scientists are the bridges between research institutes and local governments, and their work helps millions of people shake off poverty.

Bai Chunli

We always considered and continue to consider the Pope a friend, who fought against poverty, neo-liberalism and for peace. We will also always remember his words against the U.S. economic embargo that our people suffer.

Felipe Perez Roque

Little is known about the effect that computer technology can have over poverty.

Francisco Flores

So much focus in the country is the impoverished minority community. But while 25 percent of the black community lives in poverty, 75 percent is outside of that. It doesn't always get in the news.

Juan Williams

Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

Mae West

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.

Jeff Sachs

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

Pam Grier

There was so much meanness in the atmosphere, ... but marvelous things pierce through the darkness of poverty and racism. You meet all kinds of people that help put life in perspective and turn the horror into some kind of lesson or avenue of awakening that lives with you all your days.

Ruby Dee

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

Milton Berle

People can't live on poverty wages and no benefits. Can't figure out whether you're going to feed your child or go to the doctor.

Darrell Braden

What keeps people attached to poverty? The public schools.

Jarvis Deberry

Hispanics had the highest rate of any people without health insurance. Children in poverty had a higher uninsured rate than any other children.

Charles Nelson

There are subgroups among the old who still have fairly high levels of poverty, including older women, and especially those who live alone.

Victoria Velkoff

We are seeing a process of spreading poverty.

Pascal Hundt

Family structure plays a role in poverty. With one parent you obviously have only one worker. That's a contributing factor.

Mark Goldstein

Wealth is when small efforts produce big results. Poverty is when big efforts produce small results.

David George

Poverty is from the devil and that God wants all Christians prosperous.

Benny Hinn

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

James Reston

Almost a third of these people were below the poverty line, ... would have to include a broad-based plan to revive business, industries and jobs.

Robert Reich

Our focus is on poverty, which is an issue that affects everybody, but there's little doubt that other events of interest will make their way into different discussions.

James Wolfensohn

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

George Farquhar

As I have said before, the ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.

Fidel Castro

Everyone who wanted an opportunity to speak, got a chance to speak. These are people who had an opportunity to interface with policy makers in a matter that they might not have otherwise had. They were looking at the problem of poverty from so many angles, but they were of one accord.

Patricia Wright

Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?

George Ryan

If people feel negative about money, or they don't feel entitled to it, those people have a lot of what I call 'poverty thinking' and that will defeat the other traits that enable the millionaire to achieve. Self-made millionaires feel justified and worthy in their use of money.

James Gottfurcht

I have come to believe that the one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger, are more bearable than injustice.

Millicent Fenwick

Serbia is now facing very difficult circumstances. Children and young people are perhaps the most endangered anywhere in Europe. Two-thirds of the people in Serbia are living at or below the poverty line.

David Bull

He complains. ''Otherwise it's offensive to discuss poverty and suicide; they talk about these things as if they happen in a land beyond the civilized world.

Orhan Pamuk

Who hateth me but for my happiness? Or who is honour'd now but for his wealth? Rather had I, a Jew, be hated thus, Than pitied in a Christian poverty; For I can see no fruits in all their faith, But malice, falsehood, and excessive pride, Which methinks fits not their profession.

Christopher Marlowe

Elliot Park's poverty level is the highest of any neighborhood in the city, ... You don't find slum properties. That tells you poor people are living in quality housing.

David Fields

We will gradually expand the project to cover the central and western cities and rural areas, to benefit more adolescents in poverty-stricken areas.

Pan Guiyu

We estimate that tens of thousands more children will die worldwide and some 10 million people are likely to be living below the poverty line of $1 a day because of the terrorist attacks.

James Wolfensohn

Either we communicate with each other or we destroy each other. If we do not help that 80% of the population in poverty, nobody will live a human life.

Jonathan Jakubowicz

Individuals are working in low-wage jobs and do not have benefits. It makes it very hard for them to support their families and leave poverty.

Roberta Gassman

Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.

Anzia Yezierska

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

This makes me smile. Both of these (the defense jobs and dropped poverty ranking) are an affirmation of our work. It points to improved economic vitality.

Jane Campbell

The school system cannot single-handedly rid Roanoke city of poverty or the effects of poverty.

David Carson

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Our goal is to increase the contribution of small businesses to the economy, and in doing so help reduce poverty and improve people's lives.

Chris Richards

Our region's accomplishments in reducing income poverty are now well recognized, but an immense task lies ahead of us.

Haruhiko Kuroda

We can do better than a mayor who cuts sweetheart deals with developers at a time of a crisis in affordable housing. . .better than a mayor who let 100,000 New Yorkers slip into poverty.

Freddy Ferrer

This legislation extends very important benefits for people who live on the edge of poverty.

Charles E. Grassley

It's not a thing you can build up to slowly. It's either riches or poverty.

Charles Mitchell

Great progress has been achieved in poverty alleviation for Chinese women in many fields, including improvements in education, employment and social participation, when compared to 10 years ago.

Wang Guoliang

It's probably going to cause a lot of pensioner poverty in the next 10 years.

Roger Turner

In poverty, people are possessions. In the middle class, possessions means things.

Jody Williams

Among these are how many and how frequently people have lapses in their health insurance; the characteristics of people with disabilities; the presence of health care provisions in child support agreements; and whether more people enter or exit poverty during a given year.

James Holmes

New York's the greatest city on earth - who's going to argue with that? But with a mayor who will do something about a 50 percent dropout rate and one in five New Yorkers living in poverty, it could be greater. Who's going to argue with that?

Christy Setzer

Poverty is alive and well in Rhode Island.

Henry Shelton

What we saw was the poverty come out because we haven't had good leadership for 20 years.

Ron Forman

Most of the lyrics, if you listen to the poetry of hip-hop, is about taking a devastating situation and making it better, coming up out of poverty.

Ben Chavis

Poverty and exclusion conspire against peace, security and democracy.

Alejandro Toledo

The conventional wisdom was that Katrina was catalytic to these attitudes about poverty, ... But these attitudes were evident before Katrina.

Celinda Lake

Just to see the poverty in Eastern Europe is shocking.

Deann Sampley

Its concern was based on the fact that such disputes continued to retard development and progress, resulting in increased poverty among the people.

Kwame Nkrumah

One of the big factors that may account for this finding is access to high-quality medical care. Often communities that have high poverty rates either lack access to good quality care, or people have to travel longer distances to obtain high-quality care.

Elizabeth Ward

We are thrilled to have someone from the Southern Poverty Law Center here to do this nationally recognized program.

Eric Love

I write to escape ... to escape poverty.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The poverty rate seems to be the last lonely lagging indicator of the business cycle.

Walter Anderson

There are major disappointments with the outcomes of Solidarity: corruption, and major pockets of economic backwardness and even poverty. By and large, though, if there were a choice between the life Poles led in the 1970s and 1980s and now, nobody but a lunatic would say they wanted to have back what they had before.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

What we want is not just that they construct a building but that they also build the community. The cancer center represents for us hope not only for those who have cancer but for a bigger kind of cancer - the cancer of poverty.

Emilio Hernandez

Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty.

Zoe Lofgren

We cannot allow it to be said by history that the difference between those who lived and those who died in this great storm and flood of 2005 was nothing more than poverty, age or skin color.

Elijah Cummings

Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.

Eugene Sue