Anna Lindh Quotes

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

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

You cannot fight poverty unless you have stability.

Preventing poverty beats curing it.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

Global poverty is falling faster today than at any time in human history.

Reducing poverty is in our own interest.

A New Dealer regrets poverty and deplores the fact that it is necessary for society to slough off its misfits as an individual sheds his impurities and his diseases. But New Dealers believe that human want and human distress should be prevented or at least ameliorated.

Prohibiting Poverty

When governance improves, there will be less have-nots and more haves.

And I do not intend to lead a state where we simply tolerate poverty in our communities.

My goal is to eradicate poverty. I think we can't have equality until we eradicate poverty.

We need to build an Argentina with zero poverty.

If we are serious about breaking cycles of poverty, we have to change this (economy).

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.

Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.

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.

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