Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. [Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]

Without economy none can be rich, and with it few will be poor.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

I've heard that the best way to help poor people is to make sure you don't become one of them

I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Defraud not the poor of his living, and make not the needy eyes to wait long.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

Improving the health & productivity of the poorest is one of the best investments you can make in the future of the world

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.