Indira Gandhi Quotes

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.

Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Development should be viewed as a human rights issue, not as a question of simply increasing the gross national product (GNP).

The first and foremost priority is to finish the unfinished task which the founding fathers of India set out for us at the time of our independence: to get rid of chronic poverty, ignorance, and disease, which have afflicted millions and millions of our people.

My development parameter is very simple. It is about how the poorest of the poor can benefit from development.

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

My mission is to eradicate poverty.

I have to try and uplift the standard of living for the people in Zambia. If I cannot do that, I will have failed.

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

We should concentrate all our efforts on building an economic giant to bring about a fresh turn in developing the country's economy and improving the people's standard of living.

We need to build an Argentina with zero poverty.

India has, of course, aspirations of getting out of its poverty, ignorance, and disease which still afflict millions of people. But I do believe that we have something to offer to the rest of the world, including the United States.

Can we not wage a war and emerge victorious against poverty. Let us defeat poverty.

Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty.

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

For as long as I am alive, I will not rest in my desire to lead my people out of an abyss of corruption and poverty.

Economic progress and justice do not consist in superbly equalized destitution, but in the constant creation of more and more goods and services, of more and more wealth and income to be shared.

Through a policy driven approach we have wage a war against poverty and we are confident we will win this war.

We want a better America, an America that will give its citizens, first of all, a higher and higher standard of living so that no child will cry for food in the midst of plenty.

My only aim is the welfare of the poor of my country and the poor of states like Uttar Pradesh.

I'm not giving away oil for free. Just using oil, first to benefit our people, to relieve poverty.

I have always believed that the ultimate purpose of economic policies and development policy is to meet the basic needs of our people. And for that, we need a fast-expanding economy.

If a lack of money had prevented people from improving their lot, then mankind would still be living in the caves: unless you believe that investment capital first arrived from outer space.

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth – these are one and the same fight.

Nobody wants to remain poor. Those who are poor want to move away from poverty. That is why, all our programmes must be for the poor. All our schemes must serve the poor.

By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.