Lewis Thompson Preston Quotes

Reducing poverty is in our own interest.

For the first time in America's history, poverty is on the run.

I'm obsessed about lifting the greatest number of Argentines possible out of poverty as quickly as possible.

We need to build an Argentina with zero poverty.

Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

The best social programs we've had in this country are those that have united the middle class and the poor.

A New Dealer regrets poverty and deplores the fact that it is necessary for society to slough off its misfits as an individual sheds his impurities and his diseases. But New Dealers believe that human want and human distress should be prevented or at least ameliorated.

Preventing poverty beats curing it.

There should be whole-hearted, full commitment to remove poverty - only we are doing it.

You are not going to lift everybody out of poverty through the kindness of wealthy people.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.

Haiti's economy cannot be built by and benefit just a privileged few. It must be built by and benefit all Haitians.

My mission is to eradicate poverty.

Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.

The poorhouse is vanishing from among us.... We ... today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land.... We shall soon ... be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation.

You cannot fight poverty unless you have stability.