Kevin de Leon Quotes

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.

The economic development of the country must come first. Education and the raising of the standards of the people will follow. Afterwards political development may be possible.

We need to build an Argentina with zero poverty.

I'm pleased that some economists and sociologists are beginning to talk about, for example, alternative measures of human well-being - alternative, that is, to GDP, on which the world runs.

Without better economic opportunity, you can't have better public security and vice versa.

It is the potential for economic growth that provides the basis for the development of countries, for bringing to people essential goods and services, such as water to drink and facilities for healthcare.

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.

Haiti's economy cannot be built by and benefit just a privileged few. It must be built by and benefit all Haitians.

I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of economic development.

I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.

My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

Camiguin, Romblon and Camarines Norte got out of the list of poorest provinces in 2003. With tourism, these provinces can become rich.

My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.

Global poverty is falling faster today than at any time in human history.

The poorhouse is vanishing from among us.... We ... today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land.... We shall soon ... be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation.

For the first time in America's history, poverty is on the run.

Growth is not an objective in itself; we should be concerned with standards of living.

I think that we are trying to move towards the First World slowly but surely. But we must do a good job for the people left way behind. That's why extreme poverty, for us, is a priority.

There should be whole-hearted, full commitment to remove poverty - only we are doing it.

From education to the environment, from high wages to health care to human rights, California is proof that progressive policies put into action improve the human condition of all individuals.

We want to make Uttar Pradesh the most developed state in the country.

Growth is what solves most of the big economic and social problems: poverty, government deficits, quality of life, rising healthcare and retirement costs.

My government is giving residential, health facilities to poor as poverty can be removed only by empowering them.

No circumstance would prevent over-population so effectually as a general raising of the customary standard of comfort among the poorer classes. If they had accustomed themselves to a more comfortable style of living, they would use every effort not again to sink below it.