Haile Gebrselassie Quotes

My mission is to eradicate poverty.

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

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

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

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

You must not embark on programs to curb economic growth without placing a priority on maintaining income, so that the poorest people won’t simply be further depressed in their condition but will have a share, and be able to live decently.

The social justice movement of the 21st century is economic development.

There should be whole-hearted, full commitment to remove poverty - only we are doing it.

Only a state with resources can deplete poverty.

We need to build an Argentina with zero poverty.

We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves.

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.

Economic growth is the key. Economic growth is the key to everything. But once you have economic growth, it is important that we reach out to people who live in the shadows, the people who don't seem to ever think that they get a fair deal.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

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.

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.

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

Reducing poverty is in our own interest.

The best social programs we've had in this country are those that have united the middle class and the poor.

Preventing poverty beats curing it.

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 will not rest until this war [on poverty] is won.