Wen Jiabao Quotes

It is time for us to make a real commitment to our rural communities by expanding broadband, by supporting our farmers, by building affordable housing and taking on rural poverty. That's how we leave no one behind.

I'm feeling optimistic about rural Pakistan. Farmers are making good money.

In view of the desirability of strengthening the productivity of the peasantry, we must in every way facilitate the hiring of laborers in the interests of the poor.

The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and thus a problem of two thousand million villagers.

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

I came from a rural background, and I didn't come in contact with a lot of wealthy people.

All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.

The people we seek to relieve [farmers] from the oppression of unjust conditions are the largest and most conservative class of citizens in this country.

The poor should not have to learn how to be frugal and the rich should not have to learn to be extravagant.

China is now suffering from poverty, not from unequal distribution of wealth. Where there are inequalities of wealth, the methods of Marx can, of course, be used; a class war can be advocated to destroy the inequalities. But in China, where industry is not yet developed, Marx's class war and dictatorship of the proletariat are impracticable.

A bright future for the nation depends on the health and prosperity of rural America.

All kinds of excuses have been given by governments for not implementing this recommendation like food price inflation. But the question is, do the farmers of this country, who constitute nearly half of the working population, also not need to eat?

It is more difficult to fight poverty in a rich country than in a poor one.

For the poor, the economic is spiritual.

The poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give them.

I cannot fail to note once again that the poor constitute the modern challenge, especially for the well-off of our planet, where millions of people live in inhuman conditions and many are literally dying of hunger. It is not possible to announce God the Father to these brothers and sisters without taking on the responsibility of building a more just society in the name of Christ.

Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor? If they live in squalor, in filth, in crime, with hope and joy gone, a homeless, soulless army of human prey.

Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.

My people are poor and I am one of them.

we're focusing too much energy on the symptom rather than the disease: Our real enemy is poverty, not welfare.

No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What I see in my country, progressively over these years, is that the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer. The rich have become indifferent through a philosophy of greed, and the poorer have become hopeless because they're not properly cared for. That's actually something that is happening in many Western societies. Your own, I am told, is not free from it.

As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.

Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty.