Charlie Baker Quotes

Our young people need safe, permanent housing, so they can focus on their education or job, live healthy lives, and pursue their interests - without fear of where they'll sleep at night.

At their core, Americans all want the same basic things: a quality education for their children, a good job so they can provide for their families, healthcare and affordable prescription drugs, security during retirement, a strongly equipped military and national security.

Until a person has a home, they are always going to be dependent upon the system.

I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.

We must give Oklahoma families the opportunity to thrive and prosper. We must give all Oklahomans the tools necessary to pursue the American dream. And then, we must get out of the way.

I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education - that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.

I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in the cities.

I don't want to sound Pollyannish about this. I understand that poverty is never just poverty. It's often this collection of maladies, this compounded adversity. I'm not naive about the problem. But I think that stable, steady housing is one of the surest footholds we could have on the road to financial stability.

A stable and affordable home is fundamental to economic security.

Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.

I believe that God's dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don't mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you're planted. But I don't have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.

In the past, if I didn't work, I didn't eat but now I feel I can not work and I won't starve.

While no amount of financial wealth can guarantee an experience of prosperity, it is possible to experience prosperity at almost any level of income, except when we are unable to meet our basic physical needs.

I don't think you should go into politics until you can stand on your own two feet economically, if possible, and you know enough about the world.

I am anxious to fix welfare. There has to be more training and child care.

So when we're really addressing issues like poverty, you can't do that without addressing the real driver of some of those, which is stable homes, families. So that's why to me those issues are important. They're not frivolous. They're critical economic issues.

A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.

When children do not have three square meals a day, a proper education, and at least one adult who they know loves and is committed to them, it's very unlikely they will grow up to be productive citizens of the world.

The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.

A mother's ability to provide for her children is not always tied to income, but rather to education.

The term 'Xiaokang' is used today to refer to a society where people can receive education, get paid through work, have access to medical services and old-age support, have a shelter and more than enough food and clothing, and lead a well-off life.