Arun Jaitley Quotes

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.

Reducing poverty is in our own interest.

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

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.

Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.

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

God wants us to show compassion and understanding toward the unemployed or the poor not because they are poor, but because poor people, with help from those who are already successful, can become rich. And when the poor become rich, all will benefit, because in our modern economy new unemployment is the first sign of economic growth.

Our core attention is to bring prosperity in the life of common man, and all-out resources have been used for his facilitation.

Growth is what solves most of the big economic and social problems: poverty, government deficits, quality of life, rising healthcare and retirement costs.

Poverty should not just be made an issue - there is need to actually work on it.

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

We need to build an Argentina with zero poverty.

Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.

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.

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.

Haiti's economy cannot be built by and benefit just a privileged few. It must be built by and benefit all Haitians.

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

My mission is to eradicate poverty.

I myself am from a very poor background; I experienced firsthand poverty in this country, and that is not unrelated to my desire, from the moment I became president, to make a priority of poverty reduction in this country.

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.

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.

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.