Sonia Gandhi Quotes

A servant church must have as its priority solidarity with the poor.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.

I have spent all my life advocating on behalf of the poor, oppressed and marginalized. As a social justice and human rights activist, and now as President of the Republic of Malawi, I have a deep appreciation for the challenges of those on the margins of society.

Let’s make the poor richer.

We used to wage war on poverty—not poor people.

I have repeated ad nauseam my party's issues, which range from improving the lot of the poor to women's issues.

Irrespective of economic theories, we will take decisions in the larger interest of the poor people.

If there is an all India party in the country, it is the Congress. This is a party of poor people which believes in unity in diversity and which does justice to all.

Anything that is not good for the poor people of India is not the policy of the Congress Party.

Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.

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.

Anybody who runs for president in this country and comes out as strong as the Democrats were about helping the poor folks and black folks is not going to win.

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.

If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

There's a wider agenda that speaks to what the Democratic Party has historically stood for, which are economic rights for those who are struggling in the middle class, concern for the poor, for economic justice for those who are marginalized in our society.

Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.

If you are a representative, and poor people don’t vote, you’re not going to pay particular attention to the needs of the poor.

I believe in preferring the sanctity of human rights to the sanctity of property rights. I believe that the chief concern of government shall be for the poor because, as it is witnessed, the rich have ample means of their own to care for themselves.

In politics heaven lies at the feet of the poor masses.

We have achieved political democracy. Now we must make certain it reaches the minds and souls of our people.

If you have more rich people and more poor people and fewer people in the middle, what you lose is democracy.