Bono Quotes

My foundation was created so I can find a way to improve the living conditions of my people in the African continent, not just in Congo.

If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.

I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty.

The Global Poverty Project's mission is to stand up for the world's poorest people. We fight for the full funding of Millennium Development Goals and advocate meaningful change to government and corporate policies that block progress and entrench injustice.

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

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

We must focus on our biggest enemy, poverty. There is no single-state solution to it, and that is a noble goal.

Ending extreme poverty is possible.

The hungry nations of the world cry out to the peoples blessed with abundance. And the Church, cut to the quick by this cry, asks each and every man to hear his brother's plea and answer it lovingly.

I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter, and able to give people a clean drink of water. I don't want images of starving babies at the breast in my mind. I want that to change. And if I want that, I had better do something about it.

How do we give credible hope to the billion poorest people in the world? It requires compassion to get ourselves started, and enlightened self-interest to get serious... If economic divergence continues, combined with global integration, it will build a nightmare for our children.

The overriding purpose of foreign assistance must be genuine development, not the assuaging of Western guilt or the care and feeding of the massive network of career professionals, non-profit organizations and private sector companies that constitute the global aid industry.

… the world economy will only develop if it allows a dignified way of life for all human beings, from the eldest to the unborn child, not just for citizens of the G20 member states but for every inhabitant of the earth, even those in extreme social situations or in the remotest places.

This globalization is lifting up hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. The Left needs to see that.

As a global society, we have the technology, resources and the know-how to make a massive difference to living standards everywhere, including for refugees.

I strongly believe that those of us who are privileged to have wealth should contribute significantly to try and create a better world for the millions who are far less privileged.

The protestor I think will speak up for the world's poorest.

If you enter the World Bank office in Washington, D.C., you will see written on the left wall, 'The purpose of the World Bank is to fight poverty with passion.' I had it put up there because I wanted something that unites us as an institution.

I'm not interested in worrying in if I make people uncomfortable. I'm interested in stopping women and children dying - that's what I'm interested in.

Our government has been pro-poor, progressive, and people-oriented.

Irrespective of economic theories, we will take decisions in the larger interest of the poor people.

My grandfather was a justice fighter. I go to Russia and I find worse injustice than he had ever discovered. My task was investing people's money. But this was far beyond that. I became this sort of crusader.

For me, as the Government of India, the interest of the poorest of the poorest is paramount.

We cannot be the welfare state of the planet.

U.K. aid is responding to our changing world and tackling the great challenges of our time. It is transforming lives in the poorest countries and making the world healthier, safer and more prosperous for everyone.