Mitch Daniels Quotes

The library helps lower- and middle-income people - immigrants - get their shot at the American dream.

The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.

You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.

The question, therefore, is how is it possible to solve the problem of Muslim poverty?

We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves.

What I have been talking about for many years is opportunity conservatism, that every policy should focus like a laser on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder.

Too many people feel that where you start out dictates where you should end up. I was on welfare and just shy of 19 when my first daughter was born, but I was encouraged to take advantage of my ability and drive and remained in school.

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.

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.

You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out.

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

I lived through a golden period where society felt that it was good to help people who didn't have a great deal of money fulfil their potential.

I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.

The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.

Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.

Preventing poverty beats curing it.

Where else can a guy like me make it? Blind and poor---only in America.

If any one idea can justly be called the American idea, it is that a child's circumstances at birth should not determine the station in life that that child will occupy as an adult.

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

I'm obsessed about lifting the greatest number of Argentines possible out of poverty as quickly as possible.

We in the Congress Party are hoping to do greater efforts to help the people of India, especially the downtrodden who find it very tough to get ahead in life. We are focusing on tackling issues related to unemployment and poverty.

Hispanics don't want more programs to make them comfortable in their poverty. What Hispanics really want is more opportunity: the freedom to work, leave poverty behind, and rise into the ranks of the middle class and beyond.

Merely slogans and statements will not remove poverty.