Mo Ibrahim Quotes

You can't wish away poverty overnight.

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

Can we have a serious conversation about improving the integrity of our poverty programs in this country?

Will we make all poverty history? No. But can we solve some of these extreme and egregious forms of poverty? I think yes, and we should.

My goal is to eradicate poverty. I think we can't have equality until we eradicate poverty.

Severe poverty is getting better by some measures, but it's also becoming ever more scandalous because it is now so easily avoidable.

Meaningful solutions to the problems of mass poverty that prevails in India I believe can only be found in the framework of an expanding economy.

There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.

In India, the poverty is so vast that the state cannot control it. It can beat people, but it can't prevent the poor from flooding the roads, the cities, the parks and railway station platforms.

He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (1964 New York Mets).

The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and affordable goods and services to the poor, in ways that are financially sustainable and scaleable. If we do that, we really can make poverty history.

We will form an army of poor, where every poor will be a soldier and we will win the war against poverty on behalf of their strength.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

Through periodic increases over the next three decades under Democratic and Republican administrations alike, the nation achieved one of the fundamental goals of a just society, which is that no one who works for a living should have to live in poverty.

By 1990, no Australian child will be living in poverty.

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.

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

The poor is the central focus of my economic agenda. The poor should be strengthened in such a way that they get the willingness to defeat poverty. By helping the poor make ends meet while they remain in poverty is also one of the ways. I am not saying right or wrong but it's one of the ways.

People don't need to become more aware of poverty - they need to know how to end it.

Poverty fled, she who gives birth to virile men.

We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.

The collective shortfall of the 3.08 billion people (47 percent of world population) who, in 2005, lived below $2.50 per day was $507 billion per annum, which indeed comes to about two-thirds of the present US military budget. This gives us a rough sense of how much the eradication of poverty would cost.

I strongly believe that we can create a poverty-free world, if we want to.... In that kind of world, [the] only place you can see poverty is in the museum. When school children will be on a tour of the poverty museum, they will be horrified to see the misery and indignity of human beings. They will blame their forefathers for tolerating this inhuman condition to continue in a massive way.

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.

At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development.