Benjamin Netanyahu Quotes

Poverty is the mother of crime.

I knew where people were sleeping in the hallways, you know, instead of doing their job. I knew what systems weren't working.

England has gone off the rails.

Understandably, no peace can sustained when people continue to suffer from hunger, lack of jobs, lack of basic public services - and most of all - lack of opportunity or hope.

It's a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief.

There's this huge number of desperate people.

An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.

What in the name of humanity is to become of them—where are they to go?

Brother! We have, as your friends, fought by your side, and have poured out our blood in your defense, but our arms are now broken. You have grown large. My people have become small, and there are none who take pity on them.

Poverty is a noose that strangles humility and breeds disrespect for God and man.

This turbulent world is far from a perfect place.

Mexico scares me. There's no law, there's wild dogs and people driving their ATVs down the street. I like to know I can walk down the street and not be arrested for something dumb and have to pay to get my way out.

One of the causes of the Arab Spring was high unemployment.

Desperation is the result of globalization.

India lived in hopelessness, as the government was not responsive. It did not know what the poor needed. There was complete policy paralysis. Corruption was rampant, and terrorists used to play havoc in the country.

Poverty leads to protests.

In the 55-60 years of their rule, the successive Congress government have only looted the country and plunged it into poverty, casteism, regionalism, terrorism, and naxalism.

People are dangerous when they have nothing to lose.

When I read in newspapers that farmers are dying because of water shortage, I felt deeply pained that we have best of everything, yet we complain so much, whereas there are people who do not even have access to basic necessities of life.

The problem with Egypt is that there is no public trust. There is no trust, period.

When I was around 25 years old, I lost everything and was a complete dirtbag.

The world is a mess.

Whatever people's backgrounds or values, a society where more and more people face a daily struggle to house, clothe and even feed themselves and their families cannot possibly be the answer.

Everyone's seen poverty - well, most have.

If we look at the day-to-day suffering of the Venezuelan people, that's not about numbers: it's about human beings.