John Yarmuth Quotes

Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.

My mission is to eradicate poverty.

I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of economic development.

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.

If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.

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

Let’s make the poor richer.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

We must focus on our biggest enemy, poverty. There is no single-state solution to it, and that is a noble goal.

It is our sacred obligation to eliminate the curse of poverty in the shortest possible time. This is non-negotiable for the Republic.

I've often said that far more sensible than a 'make poverty history' campaign would be a 'make wealth history' campaign. It is, after all, the wealthy people who do all the damage. The less money you earn, the fewer resources you use up.

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.

Haiti's economy cannot be built by and benefit just a privileged few. It must be built by and benefit all Haitians.

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

We know we cannot achieve our twin goals of ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity without ending poverty and creating equality for women and girls.

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.

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

If we fix our economic system and invest in the human capital of the poor, then we should welcome every new person born as a source of betterment for our world and all of us on it.

You must not embark on programs to curb economic growth without placing a priority on maintaining income, so that the poorest people won’t simply be further depressed in their condition but will have a share, and be able to live decently.

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.

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

Preventing poverty beats curing it.

Destroy poverty, that source of crime, by assuring to each the satisfaction of all needs! And how difficult is this to achieve?

Prohibiting Poverty