Arun Jaitley Quotes

My main aim is poverty reduction in the state.

For the first time in America's history, poverty is on the run.

You cannot fight poverty unless you have stability.

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might.

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

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

If I care about poverty, I have to care a lot about investments in the private sector. The private sector creates the vast majority of jobs in the world, and social protection only goes so far.

When I was a kid in junior high, I had an assignment to discuss how to rescue poor people in India. I remember my teacher at the time considered it an impossible problem. Now, we're not talking that way anymore. We're sure not talking about that for China. They're rescuing themselves thanks to globalization.

Middle-income countries need to attend to the education of their poorest people to build their economies and ensure long-term stability.

You alleviate poverty by trickle-down economics.

Rather than engineering our economies solely to maximise GDP, Africa's business and political leaders must build economies explicitly designed to end poverty and inequality.

An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor.

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

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.

Without better economic opportunity, you can't have better public security and vice versa.

Economic growth is the key. Economic growth is the key to everything. But once you have economic growth, it is important that we reach out to people who live in the shadows, the people who don't seem to ever think that they get a fair deal.

Lula da Silva was my hero when he was president. I Googled him so many times. The fact that he got 20 million people out of poverty... that happened by encouraging entrepreneurship, by supporting small business.

Growing economies are critical; we will never be able to end poverty unless economies are growing. We also need to find ways of growing economies so that the growth creates good jobs, especially for young people, especially for women, especially for the poorest who have been excluded from the economic system.

Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.

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

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.

What America is thirsting for now is a battalion of strong, down-to-earth 'doers' - managers, frontline activists, business and social entrepreneurs engaged in tackling America's manifold problems of unemployment, education, and competitive slouch.