Mark Meadows Quotes

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.

You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.

Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.

Pope Francis emphatically does not buy the argument that poverty can be alleviated by the 'trickle down' effects of wealth creation. He is deaf to arguments that the global economy has brought a billion people out of poverty. He is convinced, in short, that the best and only way to expel poverty is fairer distribution of the world's goods.

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

We think there are better solutions to fighting poverty because we see what the War on Poverty has produced. It produced tens of trillions of dollars in spending. It has been a 51-year exercise, and yet the poverty rates in America today are not much better than when we started the War on Poverty.

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

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

I try to deal with the poverty gap - to do policies for all of us rather than only for the wealthy.

I see an America where poverty is defeated by opportunity, not enabled by a government check.

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

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.

We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.

Safety nets for the poor and disadvantaged are a must for any compassionate nation, but encouraging folks to go on the dole when not absolutely necessary is disgraceful.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

I don't believe in welfare.

My mission is to eradicate poverty.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

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.

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.

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

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

It is very difficult to reverse social benefits…

Reducing poverty is in our own interest.

Preventing poverty beats curing it.