Poorest Quotes

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... I`ve seen it around the world, in the poorest countries and in countries riven with conflict, ... It is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty, breaking out of stagnation. ... It`s women who can contribute to achieving real security -- not bombs and bullets and repressive governments.

- Queen Noor

Havana is one of the poorest cities I`ve been in the last few years and yet we were never asked for money from anybody during our stay.

- Wim Wenders

Waiting. Waiting. What would you do if your family was starving and you saw people dying in the streets? `Love thy neighbor.` Didn`t I read that somewhere? The real war is not in Iraq, but right here in America. It`s the War on Poverty, and it`s a war that`s been ignored and lost. An estimated 37 million Americans are living in poverty. New Orleans is one of the poorest cities in the country, with 40 percent of its children living in poverty. Mississippi has the highest poverty rate of any state. We`ve repeatedly given tax cuts to the wealthiest and left our most vulnerable American citizens to basically fend for themselves.

- Nancy Giles

People are ready to say, `Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.` We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.

- Studs Terkel

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

The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It`s the system and its limitations that are to blame.

- Paul Farmer

Well, we`ve worked with our friends in Haiti to establish nothing short of a modern medical center in one of the poorest parts of that country.

- Paul Farmer

We`ve taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We`ve scored some victories in the sense that we`ve cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.

- Paul Farmer

Today, the Muslim world is the poorest of the global powers.

- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.

- Adrian Coote

Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.

- Ahmad Shah

We all would like to see a brighter future for Haiti, and I hope this conference will serve to explore many views. Respect for human rights, freedom, and the rule of law must be established in the poorest nation in our hemisphere.

- Alberto Melloni

That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.

- Alexander Bain

The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest school districts across the Nation offset these unexpected and challenging costs.

- Alice Maria Gomes

Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.

- Allen Rather

The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq.

- Amanda Clark

But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.

- Amitabh Ray

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

- Andrew Bosomworth

Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru.

- Andrew Guccione

As one of the poorest cities in America, our hearts are with those people who are without,

- Andy Stern

We need to figure out why our public education system is failing to ignite the learning process in some of the poorest students, ... When it comes to education, people want silver bullets, they want magic tools, and technology sure looks like that magic bullet to a lot of people.

- Ann Alexander

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter, the rain may enter -- but the King of England cannot enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!

- Ann Sullivan

This is a tremendous opportunity for the Church to bridge the racial divide in the wake of Katrina; black leaders must aid these local churches that are providing shelter and relief to the poorest of the poor.

- Arturo Chavez

County, state and federal funding is down, patient needs have reached an all time high as the nation`s poorest are unable to obtain health care insurance, and emergency medicine physicians are struggling to keep up with patient demand, especially in the absence of compensation.

- Audrey Rosenstein

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.

- Ayman al-Zawahri