Simon Hoggart Quotes

I am profoundly disturbed by any attempt to take government responsibility away from government … it is government’s responsibility to educate all of our children …. The fundamental responsibility for poverty of this country does not belong to the churches; it belongs to the government.

Preventing poverty beats curing it.

Unfortunately, Democrats don't want to wage a war on poverty or improve program integrity; they prefer talking points.

It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.

The economic issues are most vital for us and it is of the highest importance that we should fight our biggest enemies - Poverty, unemployment.

It would take little more than $50 billion to raise every poor person above the official poverty line, yet the percentage of the population classified as poor hardly budges, while annual welfare spending amounts to four times that much. Where's the money going?

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

A government is one that thinks and hears the voice of the poor. A government must live for the poor.

Let's have Michael Bloomberg run the whole thing. Did a great job on this stuff in New York. If you want to spend at least what we already are on the poor but actually get results, go for it!

Through periodic increases over the next three decades under Democratic and Republican administrations alike, the nation achieved one of the fundamental goals of a just society, which is that no one who works for a living should have to live in poverty.

By 1990, no Australian child will be living in poverty.

Nobody wants to remain poor. Those who are poor want to move away from poverty. That is why, all our programmes must be for the poor. All our schemes must serve the poor.

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

The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to “help.”

I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that most people feel like that. And I believe that it ain't over till it's over.

I have no message to give the politicians of the world. They're all completely addicted to promiscuous verbalization and I'm quite sure they would not be at all interested in hearing about cut-ups and hieroglyphics and still less interested to hear about silence.

Relief, or redistribution of income, voluntary or coerced, is never the true solution of poverty, but at best a makeshift, which may mask the disease and mitigate the pain, but provides no basic cure.

The matter of social security and these grants is to help to address the levels of poverty in the country.

If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

If Hillary Clinton is president of the United States, nothing is going to happen. It's just going to be talk.

Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.

Homelessness came into being because liberal policy makers embraced a series of foolish ideas.

we're focusing too much energy on the symptom rather than the disease: Our real enemy is poverty, not welfare.

Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.

Public policy today is favoring the rich, not the poor. It's not addressing the needs of the poor.