Paul Kagame Quotes

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 want to create economic opportunity at home and abroad. I don't want just one or the other. I want both.

A prerequisite to the inclusive prosperity that will increase equality and reduce poverty is growth. This requires an innovative economy in which productive businesses, the state and citizens work together to create wealth and ensure that globalisation works for many more people.

The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.

The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor people richer.

Educated and productive young people are needed to help lift their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world.

Business is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth for creating wealth and opportunity and helping to lift people out of poverty. When you think about it that way, then business is not separate from development policy.

My dream is for Malawi to be poverty-free, and I intend to eradicate poverty through economic growth and wealth creation.

If Jeff Bezos and I had started Amazon.com in a poverty-stricken corner of Africa, there would have been no job creation because there would be no people to buy the stuff from Amazon.com. The difference here is the American middle class, which is by every measure the most extraordinary economic achievement in the history of the world.

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

I will begin a new program to get private enterprise into the ghetto and the ghetto into private enterprise. I call it “Black Capitalism.” More black ownership of business and land and homes can be the multiplier of pride that will end our racial strife.

The state does not possess trade or industry. Its wealth is the wealth of the people and the people’s wealth is not possible without the spread of these sciences amongst them so that they may know the ways for acquiring wealth.

Look at the growing middle class in India. Small businesses are not just a source of jobs and prosperity: they are the driving force of social justice too.

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

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.

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.

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

I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.

There are many programs specifically aimed at helping people in poverty start a business.

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.

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

Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all.

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

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.

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.