Kwasi Kwarteng Quotes

I have to address the economic conditions of everybody, including, and perhaps first, those who are poor.

The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.

We've got to take care of the poor.

You are not going to lift everybody out of poverty through the kindness of wealthy people.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.

Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.

The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.

No one should be richer than a ten millionaire and no one should be without a home.

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

The poorhouse is vanishing from among us.... We ... today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land.... We shall soon ... be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation.

I’m really not concerned about the very poor. They have a safety net.

There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.

Prohibiting Poverty

We need to see the FLSA and the minimum wage as part of a larger struggle to cut poverty and to address the challenge of income inequality.

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.

I'm not sure there's another way to help move more people out of poverty than to raise the minimum wage.

Chronic insecurity will not be overcome by minimum wage laws, tax credits, means-tested benefits, or workfare.

We need to truly understand what economic injustice and inequality looks like for hard-working Canadians grappling with it every day on the ground, at home and at work.

Means-tested benefits have one incredible feature in that they impose huge poverty traps.

The fact of the matter is that when governments fail - as the Tories have done - to tackle the root causes of working peoples' need for welfare support, like low pay and high rents, the number of working people relying on benefits increases.

I want us to raise the national minimum wage, because people who live in poverty should not - who work full-time should not still be in poverty.

Let's also, my friends, let's raise the minimum wage and support the 5 for 15 so you don't live in poverty.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works a full time job should have to live in poverty. That's a fundamental value proposition, an article of faith in our country that I know an overwhelming majority of Americans agree on.