Pericles Quotes

I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work.

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.

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

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.

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

Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty.

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

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

What many economists fail to understand is that poor people are no less concerned about improving their lot and that of their children than rich people are.

Reducing poverty is in our own interest.

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

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.

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

Prohibiting Poverty

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

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

And I do not intend to lead a state where we simply tolerate poverty in our communities.

We need to build an Argentina with zero poverty.

Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation.

The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.

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.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

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

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.