Gro Harlem Brundtland Quotes

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.

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

Preventing poverty beats curing it.

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

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

Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.

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

You cannot fight poverty unless you have stability.

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

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

The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.

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.

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

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

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.

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.

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

Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice.

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.

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; and does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich; social aid levels up social inequalities.

Reduction of dependency is the greatest unmet need in social policy today.

Reducing poverty is in our own interest.