Leila Janah Quotes

Growing economies are critical; we will never be able to end poverty unless economies are growing. We also need to find ways of growing economies so that the growth creates good jobs, especially for young people, especially for women, especially for the poorest who have been excluded from the economic system.

Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

A generation of entrepreneurs will mop up poverty at a rate that no government ever could.

I see an America where poverty is defeated by opportunity, not enabled by a government check.

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

Economic growth is the key. Economic growth is the key to everything. But once you have economic growth, it is important that we reach out to people who live in the shadows, the people who don't seem to ever think that they get a fair deal.

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

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.

Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

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 believe there is no other way to create decent livelihoods for the world's poorest people than to connect them to global markets as producers, and on fair terms.

The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.

I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.

We may believe in the state's responsibility to alleviate the crushing poverty that afflicts 40 percent of Latin America's population, but most of us also affirm that there is no better cure for that poverty than a stronger, more globally integrated economy.

Preventing poverty beats curing it.

Maximum Feasible Participation of the Poor

Let’s make the poor richer.

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

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

If we are all endowed by our creator with the right to pursue happiness, that has to apply to the poorest neighborhoods in the poorest counties, and I am prepared to find something that works, that breaks us out of the cycles we have now to find a way for poor children to work and earn honest money.

There's enough wealth in the world that no one should go without.

No generation has had the opportunity, as we now have, to build a global economy that leaves no-one behind. It is a wonderful opportunity, but also a profound responsibility.

If we are serious about breaking cycles of poverty, we have to change this (economy).

The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and affordable goods and services to the poor, in ways that are financially sustainable and scaleable. If we do that, we really can make poverty history.