Jim Yong Kim Quotes

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

When governance improves, there will be less have-nots and more haves.

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

Look at the growing middle class in India. Small businesses are not just a source of jobs and prosperity: they are the driving force of social justice too.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

My mission is to eradicate poverty.

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.

Reducing poverty is in our own interest.

The poorhouse is vanishing from among us.... We ... today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land.... We shall soon ... be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation.

In a good society, those in the middle and at the bottom ought to benefit significantly from economic growth. When the country prospers, everybody should prosper.

Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea.

I try to deal with the poverty gap - to do policies for all of us rather than only for the wealthy.

I've often said that far more sensible than a 'make poverty history' campaign would be a 'make wealth history' campaign. It is, after all, the wealthy people who do all the damage. The less money you earn, the fewer resources you use up.

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.

Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.

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 contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.

Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.

Pope Francis emphatically does not buy the argument that poverty can be alleviated by the 'trickle down' effects of wealth creation. He is deaf to arguments that the global economy has brought a billion people out of poverty. He is convinced, in short, that the best and only way to expel poverty is fairer distribution of the world's goods.

Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.