Gavin Newsom Quotes

Ridding the world of poverty is, of course, a fantasy.

Poverty should not just be made an issue - there is need to actually work on it.

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

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.

I myself am from a very poor background; I experienced firsthand poverty in this country, and that is not unrelated to my desire, from the moment I became president, to make a priority of poverty reduction in this country.

There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.

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

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of 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.

We've got to take care of the poor.

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

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.

The biggest single challenge to America and our future is income inequality. We've got to fix it.

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

It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.

Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.

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.

Preventing poverty beats curing it.

Let’s make the poor richer.

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

I have to address the economic conditions of everybody, including, and perhaps first, those who are poor.

A universal voucher program would change the face of poverty in this country.

We have a presidential nominee in Hillary Clinton who knows that, in a time of stunningly wide disparities of wealth in our nation, America's greatness must not be measured by how many millionaires and billionaires we have, but by how few people we have living in poverty.

What we need is a safety net that lifts people out of poverty - that helps them earn a good paycheck so they can support themselves.

The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.