Rajiv Gandhi Quotes

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

Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.

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

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.

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.

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.

Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.

Reducing poverty is in our own interest.

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

Preventing poverty beats curing it.

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

When I was a kid in junior high, I had an assignment to discuss how to rescue poor people in India. I remember my teacher at the time considered it an impossible problem. Now, we're not talking that way anymore. We're sure not talking about that for China. They're rescuing themselves thanks to globalization.

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

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

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.

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

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

Only a state with resources can deplete poverty.

Instead of helping a lucky few to escape disadvantage, a Labour government will aim to abolish poverty completely and create a more equal society, raising the living standards and well-being of all.

Growth is what solves most of the big economic and social problems: poverty, government deficits, quality of life, rising healthcare and retirement costs.

We need to build an Argentina with zero poverty.

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.