Michelle Bachelet Quotes

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

You cannot fight poverty unless you have stability.

We want to be a country with a competitive edge in the world. And a country with a solid democracy. To do that, we need to attack the social problems, and extreme poverty is probably the worst of those.

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

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

Without better economic opportunity, you can't have better public security and vice versa.

Haiti's economy cannot be built by and benefit just a privileged few. It must be built by and benefit all Haitians.

My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.

If we fix our economic system and invest in the human capital of the poor, then we should welcome every new person born as a source of betterment for our world and all of us on it.

Global poverty is falling faster today than at any time in human history.

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

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.

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

When governance improves, there will be less have-nots and more haves.

This globalization is lifting up hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. The Left needs to see that.

We need to invest in healthcare, in education, in the sciences. And in so doing, we will tackle one of the most intractable problems we face, which is gross wealth inequality. We can't fight climate change without dealing with inequality in our countries and between our countries.

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

Will we make all poverty history? No. But can we solve some of these extreme and egregious forms of poverty? I think yes, and we should.

Look at the growing middle class in India. Small businesses are not just a source of jobs and prosperity: they are the driving force of social justice too.

While Obama's economic policies have failed to spur growth, our anti-poverty programs have long failed to promote upward mobility and move people from welfare to work.

Merely slogans and statements will not remove poverty.

We need to build an Argentina with zero poverty.

You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.

We must fight inequality and poverty if we want to re-establish peace and security. Seven million Mexicans live in extreme poverty, which is why I have launched a crusade against hunger. We also have to improve our educational system and stimulate economic growth.

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