Andrew Cuomo Quotes

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.

This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.

The war on poverty had not been undertaken at the request of the poor.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Prohibiting Poverty

We used to wage war on poverty—not poor people.

The government’s unprecedented expenditures failed to bring about the decline in poverty that Johnson had promised. Instead, they made things worse.

Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

Reducing poverty is in our own interest.

I don't think they [Congress] ought to balance their budget on the backs of the poor.

Remove poverty from politics.

The real threat to the democracy is the half a nation in poverty.

Poverty was not caused by the churches; so how can the churches solve the poverty problem?

Preventing poverty beats curing it.

There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.

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

We will not rest until this war [on poverty] is won.

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

I agree that income disparity is the great issue of our time. It is even broader and more difficult than the civil rights issues of the 1960s. The '99 percent' is not just a slogan. The disparity in income has left the middle class with lowered, not rising, income, and the poor unable to reach the middle class.

And I do not intend to lead a state where we simply tolerate poverty in our communities.

My goal is to eradicate poverty. I think we can't have equality until we eradicate poverty.

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

Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty.