Colin Powell Quotes

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

When I was a kid in junior high, I had an assignment to discuss how to rescue poor people in India. I remember my teacher at the time considered it an impossible problem. Now, we're not talking that way anymore. We're sure not talking about that for China. They're rescuing themselves thanks to globalization.

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

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

Making sure that mothers are educated means we can lift more people out of poverty and build a more inclusive and sustainable society.

I believe that the war against terrorism and the war against poverty in these times of turmoil go together. So you - when you fight one, you have to fight the other.

Lula da Silva was my hero when he was president. I Googled him so many times. The fact that he got 20 million people out of poverty... that happened by encouraging entrepreneurship, by supporting small business.

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.

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

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

Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

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

The best way to end poverty is to simply give people work, which isn't considered 'sexy' among donors who want to fund a preschool or cure a disease.

The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.

The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth.

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

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.

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

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.

Attacking poverty is very expensive, and means doing things politically that are either impossible or very difficult to bring off.

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

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

A universal voucher program would change the face of poverty in this country.

This globalization is lifting up hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. The Left needs to see that.

I didn't have any personal goals when I came, but after being in politics - after seeing people, their difficulties, their wants - I think our goal has to be to eliminate poverty from India.