Rand Paul Quotes

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

The War on Poverty did not work because it was a war on shame … a war on the family and a war on God.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

Poverty decreased in America as a result of the War on Poverty

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

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.

Chronic insecurity will not be overcome by minimum wage laws, tax credits, means-tested benefits, or workfare.

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

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

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

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.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.

If we are going to get a single mother off welfare and make her work, we should certainly make the private corporations contribute to the effort by giving up the over $1 Trillion of corporate welfare.

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

A New Dealer regrets poverty and deplores the fact that it is necessary for society to slough off its misfits as an individual sheds his impurities and his diseases. But New Dealers believe that human want and human distress should be prevented or at least ameliorated.

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

This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.

Preventing poverty beats curing it.

The war on poverty had not been undertaken at the request of the poor.

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.

The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.

When you question this war on poverty, you get all the criticisms from adherents to the status quo who just don't want to see anything change. We got to have the courage to face that down, just as we did in the welfare reform of the late 1990s, and if we succeeded, we can help resuscitate this culture and get people back to work.

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