Irwin Redlener Quotes

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

Preventing poverty beats curing it.

There should be whole-hearted, full commitment to remove poverty - only we are doing it.

My mission is to eradicate poverty.

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.

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

Reducing poverty is in our own interest.

This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.

Prohibiting Poverty

We will not rest until this war [on poverty] is won.

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

Surplus RBI reserves can be used for poverty alleviation.

My government is giving residential, health facilities to poor as poverty can be removed only by empowering them.

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.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

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.

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.

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.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

We may believe in the state's responsibility to alleviate the crushing poverty that afflicts 40 percent of Latin America's population, but most of us also affirm that there is no better cure for that poverty than a stronger, more globally integrated economy.

The best social programs we've had in this country are those that have united the middle class and the poor.

The poorhouse is vanishing from among us.... We ... today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land.... We shall soon ... be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation.

Attacking poverty is very expensive, and means doing things politically that are either impossible or very difficult to bring off.

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