Kathleen Blanco Quotes

There's no future in being poor.

These institutions are generally more skilled at getting rich off those living in the lower economic reaches than they are in preparing them for the job market.

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

With the right support, a child growing up in a dysfunctional household, who was destined for a lifetime on benefits could be put on an entirely different track - one which sees them move into fulfilling and sustainable work. In doing so, they will pull themselves out of poverty.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

Education is the first step on the ladder to economic empowerment.

The great mass of our poor white population begin to understand that they have rights, and that they, too, are entitled to some of the sympathy which falls upon the suffering. They are fast learning that there is an almost infinite world of industry opening before them, by which they can elevate themselves and their families from wretchedness and ignorance to competence and intelligence..

Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.

All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty.

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

'Strictly Business' is about a young black man who is learning about himself, and that applies to a lot of young black men, those who are trying to find jobs. This film gives them a good look at that situation.

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

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

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.

People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it's about a lot more than being able to make money.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy.

When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

What many economists fail to understand is that poor people are no less concerned about improving their lot and that of their children than rich people are.

I do care about not 99 percent or 95 percent. I care about the very rich and the very poor. I care about 100 percent of America.

I myself am from a very poor background; I experienced firsthand poverty in this country, and that is not unrelated to my desire, from the moment I became president, to make a priority of poverty reduction in this country.

I don't know how you can move out of one's socioeconomic category if you don't have education.

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