Anirudh Krishna Quotes

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.

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

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

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

Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

Reducing poverty is in our own interest.

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.

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

You cannot fight poverty unless you have stability.

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.

Prohibiting Poverty

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

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

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

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

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

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

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

Without better economic opportunity, you can't have better public security and vice versa.

I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.

What many economists fail to understand is that poor people are no less concerned about improving their lot and that of their children than rich people are.

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.

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.

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