Imelda Marcos Quotes

My main aim is poverty reduction in the state.

Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.

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.

My dream is for Malawi to be poverty-free, and I intend to eradicate poverty through economic growth and wealth creation.

I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of economic development.

Infrastructure alone won't end poverty. The World Bank had to learn this lesson, too. While we believed too much in bricks and mortar in our early days, we now understand that bringing together funding, technical expertise, and tested knowledge goes much further.

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

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

The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.

We have restored order and established domestic tranquility. We have fed the starving, clothed the naked, and ministered to the sick. We have improved the sanitary condition of the island. We have stimulated industry, introduced public education, taken a full and comprehensive enumeration of the inhabitants

The government of Macau, of China, has been empirical and pragmatic and has brought hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, a feat unequaled in the history of civilization in any country.

There's a long list of investments that governments could and should be making. There is strengthening infrastructure, such as transport and communications; there is investment in education; there is investment in families, particularly putting measures in place that free women from having to make the choice between raising a family and work.

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

Beyond advocating for greater access to consumer markets abroad, we need to go one step further and advocate for a higher quality of life for the people who are the driving force behind them.

We need to build an Argentina with zero poverty.

It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.

I made money. I wanted to give it back to Africa but I wanted to give it back in a meaningful way. So I really want to do something which deals with the root of the problem of hunger, of disease, of ills we have in our society.

Economic development cannot take a nation forward on its own. We need a society and economy which complement each other. We need to take care of the poor, deprived and left behind sections of society.

The world got side-tracked from development issues during the post-9/11 crisis period.

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.

I dream ...of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction

Good roads, good houses, adequate electricity, good schools or good hospitals in the village are indeed, the parameters of progress. However, in my view, 100 percent literate village is the true symbol of real progress.

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.