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While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader.

Quotes by Robert Teeter

There's no future in being poor.

Quotes by Robert Shaw

The job creators are members of America's vast middle class and the poor, whose purchases cause businesses to expand and invest.

Quotes by Robert Reich

In reality, most of America's poor work hard, often in two or more jobs.

Quotes by Robert Reich

Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the rest of the Ivy League are worthy institutions, to be sure, but they're not known for educating large numbers of poor young people.

Quotes by Robert Reich

For a man without hobbies, I stand in a wonderful spot, where what I do is my best hobby, and everything else is a poor second.

Quotes by Robert Preston

I'd like CBS, at this point, to say where they got those documents from. I think they should say where they got these documents because I thought it was a very poor job of reporting by CBS.

Quotes by Robert Novak

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

The desperately poor may accept handouts, because they feel they have to. For those who consider themselves at least middle class, however, anything that smacks of a handout is not desired. Instead, they want their economic power back.

Quotes by Robert J. Shiller

All taxes, except a 'lump-sum tax,' introduce distortions in the economy. But no government can impose a lump-sum tax - the same amount for everyone regardless of their income or expenditures - because it would fall heaviest on those with...

Quotes by Robert J. Shiller

Poor parenting may be reflected in poor sibling relationships.

Quotes by Robert J. Waldinger

There are 500,000 poor children in this state that did not choose to be poor, and we have to take care of them.

Quotes by Robert J. Bentley

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.

Quotes by Robert Herjavec

The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.

Quotes by Robert Herrick

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever.

Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much bigger when you're there.

Quotes by Robert D. Kaplan

Don't let a temporal way to connect be a poor substitute for an eternal way. Without first being connected vertically to God, all the social networking contacts in the world won't be enough.

Quotes by Robert A. Schuller

There's more poor people in this country than there are rich, and I stick up for the poor people.

Quotes by Rob Ford

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the quote about horror films say about "poor" decisions?
It observes that "Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films" — in other words, characters making bad choices under pressure is a common ingredient in the genre. If you enjoy quotes about people and their choices, our Man quotes are worth a look.
What historical event does one of these quotes reference?
One quote refers to the Gulf War era, when Iraq's Saddam Hussein launched Scud missile attacks on Israel — a real historical episode. The quote itself observes a pattern in public opinion around it: "As soon as, say, Saddam Hussein started bombing Israel with Scuds, everyone was like, 'Poor Israel.' But when Israel retaliates - and most of the time they then win - people turn against them." This is presented here strictly as the speaker's own observation about how sympathy can shift depending on who appears to be winning, not as commentary on any current conflict.
Is there a quote about what it means to be poor financially?
Yes — one quote simply states, "When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off." Financial hardship often ties closely to family life — see our Family quotes for more.
Does one quote mention turning down film roles?
Yes. One quote explains that after a well-known martial arts film, the speaker turned down a lot of Hollywood offers because they were "victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a..." — the speaker's own account of why they declined those parts, without going further into what the roles depicted beyond that description.
What's a common thread across these "poor" quotes?
They use "poor" in very different senses — bad luck in movies, a specific historical episode and shifting public opinion, financial hardship, and difficult roles turned down in a career — showing how flexible the word can be depending on context. For more on facing tough circumstances with perspective, see our Good quotes or Life quotes.

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