Help The Poor Quotes - Page 2

• My especial object is to help the poor; the rich can help themselves. I believe in self-made men.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Believe, Men, Self

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• Revenge is one of the few things in politics that never gets lost in the mail or written off for a dime on the dollar like losers' campaign debts or pledges to help the Poor.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Revenge, Dollars, Dimes

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.245, Pan Macmillan

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• My message to David Cameron, as the head of our government, is to seriously think again about this Robin Hood tax, the tax to help the poor by taking a little bit from the rich.

  Keith O'Brien

  Thinking, Government, Messages

  "Cardinal accuses David Cameron of 'immoral' behaviour and favouring rich" by Shiv Malik, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2012.

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• Far as I know, Legal Aid was invented to help poor people fight wrongs; [the criminals] are abusing the system, and the damned lawyers help them do it. They're all sticking two fingers up at them who pay their taxes. And I'll tell you sommat for free, Sir George, them who pays the taxes are eventually going to get fed up of it.

  Andrew Barrett

  Fighting, Two, People

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• We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.

  Jack Kemp

  Needs, Helping, Rich

  "Jack Kemp Faces Reality", www.nytimes.com. May 7, 1989.

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• There is no more compassionate and effective way to help poor people in New York City than to give to Robin Hood.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  New York, Cities, People

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• I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.

  Arthur Ashe

  Helping Others, Joy, Forgiving

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• The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Way, Poverty, Helping

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• It's the nature of government, to build enduring institutions, structures that stay long after their purpose is over. If you pay people to help the poor, you have people who won't be paid if there aren't any poor, so they'll be sure to find some.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Government, Long, People

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• I am a sensitive person, so it is actually saddening to learn that these poverty-stricken families are most of the time mistreated or looked down upon. Help the poor, like how you would want to be helped if you were in their position.

  Hillary Clinton

  Sensitive Person, Want, Poverty

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• The best way to help the poor is not to become one of them

  Lang Hancock

  Inspirational, Money, Way

  Quoted in R W Kent (ed) Money Talks (1985).

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• You have to separate the humanitarian impulse from the record of aid itself. We all want to help. Many people would say that it's the moral impulse of the rich to help the poor, but the record of aid has been terrible.

  George Ayittey

  People, Records, Want

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• Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

  Abdul Qadeer Khan

  Roots, Hatred, Trying

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• I will continue to find ways to help poor people find a job, get a job, and learn someday to own the job.

  Newt Gingrich

  Jobs, People, Way

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• All of the incessant debate about development assistance, and whether the rich are doing enough to help the poor, actually concerns less than 1% of rich world income. The effort required of the rich is indeed so slight that to do less is to announce brazenly to a large part of the world: 'You count for nothing.' We should not be surprised, then, if in later years the rich reap the whirlwind of that heartless response.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Years, Effort, Heartless

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• It would help the poor people who need jobs. Minimum wage is a mandate. We're against mandates so why should we have it? It would be very beneficial.

  Ron Paul

  Jobs, Crazy, People

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• I like to help poor people who got no chance. If rich people don't, who will? Not other poor people, that's for sure.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, People, Helping

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• Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

  Paul Ryan

  Ideas, Done, Helping

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• The public doesn’t have to be hostile to the rich. ‘Robbing the rich to help the poor’ will only drive the rich away to other countries along with their money. As a matter of fact, their wealth should be respected. All wealth in China belongs to the country.

  Zong Qinghou

  Country, Matter, Facts

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• President Obama's recommended reduction in the tax deduction for charitable giving reflects his fundamental belief that only the government can or should help the poor. He wants to keep the impoverished directly dependent on the government - and the Democratic Party - for their daily bread.

  Dick Morris

  Party, Government, Giving

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• No matter whether it is their intention or not, almost anything that the rich can legally do tends to help the poor. The spending of the rich gives employment to the poor. But the saving of the rich, and their investment of these savings in the means of production, gives just as much employment, and in addition makes that employment constantly more productive and more highly paid, while it also constantly increases and cheapens the production of necessities and amenities for the masses.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Mean, Giving, Saving

  Henry Hazlitt, Hans F. Sennholz (1993). “The Wisdom of Henry Hazlitt”, Foundation for Economic Education

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• Unfortunately, liberals didn't stop with welfare-statism. They also turned to economic regulations, not understanding that such interventions, again, harmed the very people they were supposedly truing to help - the poor and destitute.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  People, Understanding, Regulation

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• If you really want to help the poor, help the rich. They're the ones who will invest, build more factories, create more jobs.

  William E. Simon

  Jobs, Want, Helping

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• The best way to help the poor is to slash taxes and allow savings, investment, and creation of jobs to proceed unhampered.

  Murray Rothbard

  Jobs, Saving, Way

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• The problem or the fundamental flaw of Obamacare was that they put regulations on the insurance, about 12 regulations, which increased the cost of the insurance. And so President Obama wanted to help poor, working-class people, but he actually hurts them by making the insurance too expensive to want to buy. I had someone at the house just recently was doing some work, and he said: "Oh, my son doesn't have insurance, he's paying the penalty because it's too expensive."

  Rand Paul

  Hurt, Son, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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