Khaleda Zia Quotes

… poor people deserve access to food, education, housing, and medical services

What people want is their basic needs. So I'm trying to help people ensure their basic need: that means food security, healthcare, education, and job opportunity and a better life.

Democracy has to deliver. It is not enough for people to vote. They must also eat.

Clean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.

The government can build physical infrastructure in the form of housing for the poorest of the poor, and availability of energy, toilets and water in every home.

It is not enough, for example, to acknowledge and respect every man's right to the means of subsistence if we do not strive to the best of our ability for a sufficient supply of what is necessary for his sustenance

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

I have much more support than most women around this world, and I have the financial means to have a home and help with care and food.

Real democracy is food on the table, the ability to plan your life, the ability to walk on the street without getting mugged.

We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances.

Shouldn't everybody join hands to give the basic minimum - food, education and health - to the entire population?

Healing Advices for the Poor

Bend everything toward improving the standard of living of the people.

They [the people] are offered the Constitution. But the people can't eat the Constitution.

Every man has a right to bread.

Only a well fed, well housed, well schooled people can enjoy the blessings of liberty.

A community is business, education, and housing. Without those, the community suffers.

To me, what socialism means is to guarantee a basic level of dignity. It's asserting the value of saying that the America we want and the America that we are proud of is one in which all children can access a dignified education. It's one in which no person is too poor to have the medicines they need to live.

I came to the realization of how essential a role housing plays in the lives of the poor.

People need to have enough to eat and have work and money. But there are other things that are important.

In every single place I have campaigned in and every single place I have lived, people want some fairly basic things. They want to believe that they are safe, they want to know that their children will be educated and that if they are ill, they will be made better.

I know, for me, I want to live in a community where people's basic needs are met.

The day every poor person in this country has a toilet in his home and his fuel requirements are met, whoever is the PM then shall rule for at least 25 years.