Sanjay Gandhi Quotes

We used to wage war on poverty—not poor people.

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.

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

It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.

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

The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich.

The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.

It is because of capitalism that we can pay for services to poor people that we don't even know.

In many cases democracy has not been able to solve the social problems like poverty.

I believe in preferring the sanctity of human rights to the sanctity of property rights. I believe that the chief concern of government shall be for the poor because, as it is witnessed, the rich have ample means of their own to care for themselves.

Politicians don't like to target benefits to poor people, because poor people don't contribute to their campaigns.

We should remember the poor.

Bribing rich people to help poor people, rather than helping poor people directly, is a popular approach because the cost of tax breaks doesn't show up on the government books.

… poor people deserve access to food, education, housing, and medical services

Government becomes a burden only when it functions on behalf of the poor.

God wants us to show compassion and understanding toward the unemployed or the poor not because they are poor, but because poor people, with help from those who are already successful, can become rich. And when the poor become rich, all will benefit, because in our modern economy new unemployment is the first sign of economic growth.

Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea.

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

Irrespective of economic theories, we will take decisions in the larger interest of the poor people.

Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American or European elections. They don't make donations to political parties or hire lobbyists in D.C., London or Canberra.

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.