Thein Sein Quotes

I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.

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.

Reducing poverty is in our own interest.

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.

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

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.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

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

What many economists fail to understand is that poor people are no less concerned about improving their lot and that of their children than rich people are.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

Ridding the world of poverty is, of course, a fantasy.

You must not embark on programs to curb economic growth without placing a priority on maintaining income, so that the poorest people won’t simply be further depressed in their condition but will have a share, and be able to live decently.

… mankind will no longer passively submit to crushing poverty with its effects of death, disease, and decline.

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

Are we going to solve the issue of poverty? Absolutely not. Are we going to have an impact? I'm committed to it, and if we don't, I'll have no regrets because we're going to try everything we can.

We have a presidential nominee in Hillary Clinton who knows that, in a time of stunningly wide disparities of wealth in our nation, America's greatness must not be measured by how many millionaires and billionaires we have, but by how few people we have living in poverty.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

And I do not intend to lead a state where we simply tolerate poverty in our communities.

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

Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.

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