| Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988. |
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| NUMBER: | 651 |
| AUTHOR: | Jules Feiffer |
| QUOTATION: | I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn’t poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don’t have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | 1965 cartoon, quoted by William Safire Safire’s Political Dictionary Random House 78 |
| SUBJECTS: | The World: Politics & Government: Politicians & Critics |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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