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It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.

In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works a full time job should have to live in poverty. That's a fundamental value proposition, an article of faith in our country that I know an overwhelming majority of Americans agree on.

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What's the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth.

People who work full-time in America should not have to live in poverty - simple as that. Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead. Too many people are finding the rungs on the ladder of opportunity further and further apart.

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

We are one of the richest countries in the world, and there is absolutely no reason why anyone should have to live in poverty.