Narendra Modi Quotes

The ultimate objective of subsidies should be to empower the poor, to break the cycle of poverty, and become foot-soldiers in our war on poverty.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

When they seek to cut programs that help families living in poverty, I will fight them every step of the way.

What we need is a safety net that lifts people out of poverty - that helps them earn a good paycheck so they can support themselves.

Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people.

We've got to take care of the poor.

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

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; and does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich; social aid levels up social inequalities.

I believe in a safety net. I believe one of the responsibilities of the Federal Government is a safety net.

By helping the poor, we must be able to remove their poverty. By extending help to one here and one there in the form of providing food will not remove poverty

Let’s make the poor richer.

We should be reforming our entitlement programs to empower people.

I disagree with those who say welfare is a waste of money. It's a good means to creating new jobs.

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

We need a better strategy for poor people...because what we're doing isn't working.

No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services, education or money, income is an excellent antidote for deprivation. No truth has spawned so much ingenious evasion.

The poor is the central focus of my economic agenda. The poor should be strengthened in such a way that they get the willingness to defeat poverty. By helping the poor make ends meet while they remain in poverty is also one of the ways. I am not saying right or wrong but it's one of the ways.

I see an America where poverty is defeated by opportunity, not enabled by a government check.

The matter of social security and these grants is to help to address the levels of poverty in the country.

You can't help the poor by becoming one of them.

What we need to do is increase the totality of money that is given to the poorest areas and then we can do more on prevention but we have crucial needs at the moment just to get people out of poverty and to get the eight hundred million people that go to bed at night hungry, give them some food and some hope.

My development parameter is very simple. It is about how the poorest of the poor can benefit from development.

Give the money directly to people who work hard. Instead of taking the money from the business and then filtering it through the horror of government programs, which is essentially giving it to social workers who live in Bethesda so they can drive their minivans and vote Democratic. Give them the money, so that they go and talk to the worker who is washing dishes, and they say, "Well, we want to help you, you see." And it would be better to help them by taking the money from that minivan-driving social worker and giving it directly to the guy who is really working hard by washing dishes.

When have handouts ever worked? In the United States, we learned that welfare for our own citizens not only turned into a debilitating crutch, it created a more or less permanent underclass.

What...can the government do to help the poor? The only answer is the libertarian answer: Get out of the way.