Alex Pareene Quotes

When they seek to cut programs that help families living in poverty, I will fight them every step of the way.

It is very difficult to reverse social benefits…

The Democrats want to help people who have been disadvantaged by the economy these last decades. The Republicans want to weaken and roll back various aspects of what the Democrats have tried to do.

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.

Fighting poverty is nothing new for the Conservative Party, but during the 1980s the emphasis placed on individualism and prosperity was sometimes seen to crowd out social issues like helping the most vulnerable in society.

I've always thought my main concern is to alleviate the burdens on people, who were earning less money, perhaps than £80,000.

It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.

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

We've got to take care of the poor.

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate.

The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.

No one should be richer than a ten millionaire and no one should be without a home.

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

The government’s unprecedented expenditures failed to bring about the decline in poverty that Johnson had promised. Instead, they made things worse.

For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.

I have to address the economic conditions of everybody, including, and perhaps first, those who are poor.

I, along with many of my Republican colleagues, believe there is so much more we can do for those who are trapped in our social safety net programs. But we are limited by the level of discourse with which of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle are willing to engage.

It's not enough to tackle just the symptoms of poverty. You have to tackle the causes of poverty.

Means-tested benefits have one incredible feature in that they impose huge poverty traps.

Poverty should not just be made an issue - there is need to actually work on it.

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

What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.

The poor is the central focus of my economic agenda. The poor should be strengthened in such a way that they get the willingness to defeat poverty. By helping the poor make ends meet while they remain in poverty is also one of the ways. I am not saying right or wrong but it's one of the ways.