Lucille Roybal-Allard Quotes

Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice.

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

There was this conflict within me because so many people would come up to me to ask for prayers for all sorts of things, and 50% would be about money like, 'How can I pay for the tuition fee of my kids?' And I could only pray for them. I had no advice to give them because I didn't know anything about money.

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

We do not have a budget support. We are now fully independent in terms of requirements, but we still have a need for development assistance separate from the budget. So all the economic aid we receive is for development assistance.

Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.

I think everything depends on money.

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

There's obviously a correlation between an economically empowered woman and the investments she makes. That leads to her social and moral conscience for bettering her community.

My financial service business is the absolute best thing I have done to empower the poor. I run many charities and fight many political causes, but my financial service company is the greatest gift I've given.

The substitute for knowledge is money.

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

If women had better access to the financial system - even so much as a basic deposit account at a bank - it would be a major step in the direction of greater wealth and greater economic empowerment.

I grew up sort of lower working class. And I just didn't want to have the money struggles that my parents had. You know, I could just - as loving an environment I grew up in - and I grew up in a great home, a very loving home - but, you know, we had that stress. We had that stress in our life.

I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don't have a short-term payback.

Our whole evolutionary thinking leads us to the conclusion that economic independence lies at the very foundation of social and moral well-being.

The Merchants are rich enough. Cannot they help themselves.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race, economic independence.

Some people are lucky enough to borrow money from their parents, but that shouldn't determine whether you can pursue your dreams.

There are several different ways we can get at unclogging the arteries of lending in America and helping working people achieve financial independence. Part of that is going to be through executive action. Part of that is going to be through reconciliation.

What we need is a safety net that lifts people out of poverty - that helps them earn a good paycheck so they can support themselves.

Regardless of what our national credit rating is, people will always want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, fuel for their cars, and clothes on their backs.

I've led programs that have helped thousands of individuals, small businesses, veterans, the disabled, farmers get low-interest loans to prosper.

I get that money is important, and it's scary to think that you won't have enough. At the same time, we can set up reasonable social safety nets and take care of everybody.

Women's vulnerability around money is hardly exclusive to Africa. Throughout the world, women struggle with financial power. In the West, women's financial literacy is notably lower than men's. That lack of knowledge means that many women slide into poverty when they become widows.