Abraham A. Ribicoff
Abraham A. Ribicoff

My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.

Abraham Kuyper
Abraham Kuyper

The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

Abu Bakar Bashir
Abu Bakar Bashir

This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.

Abu Bakar Bashir
Abu Bakar Bashir

Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.

Aby Rosen
Aby Rosen

I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.

Abu Bakr
Abu Bakr

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.

Ada Yonath
Ada Yonath

I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.

Ada Yonath
Ada Yonath

I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.

Adam Curtis
Adam Curtis

In many cruise ships, there are hundreds of workers from some of the poorest countries on earth who are paid minute amounts of actual wages - sometimes less than two dollars a day - to attend to the passengers' needs.

Adam Davidson
Adam Davidson

The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.