A Quote by Tom Noddy

I was one of the poorest people in America. — © Tom Noddy
I was one of the poorest people in America.
Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.
I was the poorest kid in my school, poorest kid in my town, poorest family. That stayed with me forever.
International consumers can rest assured that their quinoa purchases have benefited some of Latin America's poorest people, together with their families.
We have a community where almost 50 percent of the people in the city of Cleveland alone have some type of record. I represent one of the poorest districts in America - out of 435, I'm 422.
When my father started talking about strip mining in the Appalachia back in the '60s, I remember a conversation I had with him where he said, you know, this is the richest state in the country if you look at the resources and the land, but the poorest people after the state of Mississippi: the 49th poorest people in the country.
Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world.
For me, as the Government of India, the interest of the poorest of the poorest is paramount.
Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest classes makes every individual a reader.
The people I admire most are those doing outstanding things for the poorest children, such as Michael Wilshaw at Mossbourne academy, Dan Moynihan and all those at the Harris academies, and those at chains such as Ark and the Haberdashers, who are driving up standards in the poorest areas.
I'm not the poorest president. The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live.
Rising energy costs kill jobs and hit America's poorest the hardest.
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.
The poorest country in South America, Bolivia, had been devastated by neoliberal economic policies.
What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
Today, Wilberforce University welcomes many of America's poorest and most underserved populations and transforms their educational dreams into realities.
The wealthiest 300 people have greater riches than the three billion poorest. The three wealthiest people have greater riches than the 48 poorest countries put together. With only limited environmental space to accommodate the expected 9 billion human inhabitants of the world by 2050, such disparities in consumption are clearly not sustainable
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