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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should not be rewarded. But often it isn't, and common decency requires that we take care of the least of these.

Conservatives highlight the primacy of family and argue that family breakdown exacerbates poverty, and they're right. Children raised by single parents are three times as likely to live in poverty as kids in two-parent homes.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

I've always found poverty a source of strength.

Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.