Mike Huckabee Quotes

You cannot fight poverty unless you have stability.

In order to counteract income inequality, it's essential to tackle poverty in an integrated way that has long-term impact. We need to give people the capacity to be resilient, to take on challenges and to learn the skills they need to work toward more prosperous futures.

If you work, you should not be poor.

Preventing poverty beats curing it.

The only way to beat poverty in America is to completely transform American public education

For me, there is no greater sunshine in politics or in life than to have a job, security for your family, a good school place where you know your child is going, and the sense that if I put in, there will be a decent, secure retirement at the end of it all.

One of the flaws in the American dream is that there isn't as much of a safety net as you may get in other countries.

The nation's children, families, poor, workers, and senior citizens deserve more than lip service. They deserve more than outrage. They deserve real support, protection, and solid action.

Communities do need police, but law enforcement needs to be much more transparent and held accountable for their actions. We also need increased resources for mental health services, affordable housing, education, jobs training, and much more to truly address social and economic issues in our communities.

A universal basic income doesn't give people dignity or protect them from boredom and vice.

Poverty is poverty. At the end of the day, people want a job.

Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn't collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded.

The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.

One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send their children to school.

I am working hard to ensure that working families can continue to afford to live in our city.

Barack Obama seems intent on enrolling more people on food stamps. Mitt Romney's focus is going to be on generating more jobs that will make food-stamps unnecessary for 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.

With political will and strategic initiatives, we can prevent more and more of our global neighbors from falling into the abyss of poverty and instead give future generations the opportunities they need to rise to their fullest potential.

I am anxious to fix welfare. There has to be more training and child care.

Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach.

Everything depends on a good job - strong families, strong communities, the pursuit of the American dream, and a tax base to support schools for our kids and services for our seniors.

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

I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

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