Paul Ryan Quotes

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.

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

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

You are not going to lift everybody out of poverty through the kindness of wealthy people.

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

We need to make sure our government programs encourage work, not dependence.

Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.

If we can spend the money to put a man on the moon, we ought to be able to find the funds to put a man on his feet.

If we are going to get a single mother off welfare and make her work, we should certainly make the private corporations contribute to the effort by giving up the over $1 Trillion of corporate welfare.

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.

Preventing poverty beats curing it.

We used to wage war on poverty—not poor people.

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.

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

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.

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

I'm obsessed about lifting the greatest number of Argentines possible out of poverty as quickly as possible.

While Obama's economic policies have failed to spur growth, our anti-poverty programs have long failed to promote upward mobility and move people from welfare to work.

I believe that investing in welfare is crucial - but I also believe that it only works if you're getting help to those who need it. If you're doing it with no results, it's disastrous.

Poverty should not just be made an issue - there is need to actually work on it.

If we are serious about breaking cycles of poverty, we have to change this (economy).

I see an America where poverty is defeated by opportunity, not enabled by a government check.

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

Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.