Kirsty Coventry Quotes

People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can't feed themselves and their family, they will take to the streets.

I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children.

Free markets and democracy are far from an overnight solution to poverty- they require among many other things the bottom-up evolution of the rules of the game, including contract enforcement and fair political competition.

Poverty is the parent of revolution.

What does peace mean in a world in which the combined wealth of the world's 587 billionaires exceeds the combined gross domestic product of the world's 135 poorest countries?

Poverty is a corrosive brew, capable of eating away at the underpinnings of democratic life itself.

The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.

Vaca Diez, do not destroy our country!

Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

When in some communities selling drugs is so lucrative that that's a pretty big enticement that we have to break down. Part of that is by making opportunities and paying decent wages.

Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.

Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.

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.

Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.

We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day.

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.

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

Somebody has been cashing checks, and they've been bouncing back on us. And these people, the poor class of Negroes and the poor class of white people, they're getting tired of it.

To deal with radicalism and extremism, we need to deal with economic inequality. This is what I learned from my experience in Solo and then in Jakarta.

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries

Reducing poverty is in our own interest.

I can’t stand it anymore. I can’t stand what’s happening to this country.

Attacking poverty is very expensive, and means doing things politically that are either impossible or very difficult to bring off.