Aaron Sorkin Quotes

We will not rest until this war [on poverty] is won.

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

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.

A New Dealer regrets poverty and deplores the fact that it is necessary for society to slough off its misfits as an individual sheds his impurities and his diseases. But New Dealers believe that human want and human distress should be prevented or at least ameliorated.

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

The war on poverty had not been undertaken at the request of the poor.

Prohibiting Poverty

For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.

Irrespective of economic theories, we will take decisions in the larger interest of the poor people.

Anything that is not good for the poor people of India is not the policy of the Congress Party.

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.

If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.

It is because of capitalism that we can pay for services to poor people that we don't even know.

Government has a responsibility to the have-nots.

Politicians don't like to target benefits to poor people, because poor people don't contribute to their campaigns.

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.

This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.

Preventing poverty beats curing it.

There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.

Poverty decreased in America as a result of the War on Poverty