Harold Howe II Quotes

Preventing poverty beats curing it.

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

Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the 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.

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.

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

Reducing poverty is in our own interest.

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

You cannot fight poverty unless you have stability.

As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty spread and special privilege grow.

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

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.

We need to build an Argentina with zero poverty.

If war is the solution, why didn't Roosevelt declare war on poverty?

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away.

My mission is to eradicate poverty.

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

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

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children.

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

If we can spend the money to put a man on the moon, we ought to be able to find the funds to put a man on his feet.