Indira Gandhi Quotes

The people of the Third World need our sympathetic understanding and, much more than that, they need our help. We can provide them with a margin of survival by internal disruption in the United States. Whether they can succeed against the kind of brutality we impose on them depends in large part on what happens here.

There is no country on earth that has done more for our own poor and for the poor around the world. We are not the ones that need to be targeted.

People from the world's richest countries should be prepared to accept the burden of debt reduction for heavily indebted poor countries, and should urge their leaders to fulfill the pledges made to reduce world poverty, especially in Africa, by the year 2015.

All of the incessant debate about development assistance, and whether the rich are doing enough to help the poor, actually concerns less than 1% of rich world income. The effort required of the rich is indeed so slight that to do less is to announce brazenly to a large part of the world: 'You count for nothing.' We should not be surprised, then, if in later years the rich reap the whirlwind of that heartless response.

There has long been a debate in the aid community and in Africa about how to most effectively help situations of poverty in developing nations and underprivileged communities.

Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.

Many developing nations have such severe debt and budget problems that the money given by developed nations will never be spent the way it is intended.

International development aid is based on the Robin Hood principle: take from the rich and give to the poor.

The measure of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, but whether, as Franklin Roosevelt said, we provide enough for those who have too little.

There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.

A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor countries to put into Swiss bank accounts.

I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.

To make sustainable progress in reducing extreme poverty will require improvements in both the quantity and quality of aid.

The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth.

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries

Obviously there is not money enough in the world to relieve the suffering of the peoples of the underdeveloped areas, but ... there is, for the first time in history, enough knowledge to do the job.

The developing world is poor. It needs capital.

Third World nations will recognize [their] debts only so long as they're able to get them rescheduled and have money lent to them.

The money from wealthy nations to confront some very real global poverty and economic issues is largely given out of guilt.

I'm not opposed to the idea of helping regions that are struggling to get a reasonable fraction of federal research spending.

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

I've always thought my main concern is to alleviate the burdens on people, who were earning less money, perhaps than £80,000.

Poverty is not natural; it is man-made

The war on poverty programs help address the pain of poverty.

In a world of massive wealth and income inequality, Europe must support Greece’s efforts to build an economy which creates more jobs and income, not more unemployment and suffering.