Michelle Lujan Grisham Quotes

Prohibiting Poverty

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

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

Reducing poverty is in our own interest.

This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.

When our economy is truly healthy, and everyone rises with the tide of prosperity, then issues such as the lack of affordable housing, homelessness, and hunger are greatly diminished.

My goal is to eradicate poverty. I think we can't have equality until we eradicate poverty.

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.

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

My mission is to eradicate poverty.

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

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

I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.

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.

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

The war on poverty is not a struggle simply to support people, to make them dependent on the generosity of others. It is a struggle to give people a chance.

Preventing poverty beats curing it.

Destroy poverty, that source of crime, by assuring to each the satisfaction of all needs! And how difficult is this to achieve?

Let’s make the poor richer.

We will not rest until this war [on poverty] is won.

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

We need to build an Argentina with zero poverty.

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

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.

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.