M. S. Swaminathan Quotes

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

There are so many people and organisations that work quietly and diligently for the poor and the disadvantaged. We should also work with unity and purpose to ensure that the benefits of government policies reach all sections of society.

Haiti's economy cannot be built by and benefit just a privileged few. It must be built by and benefit all Haitians.

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.

There does not have to be trade-off between growth and social protection. A democracy does not mean much if it doesn't respond to the needs and will of its people.

A New Dealer regrets poverty and deplores the fact that it is necessary for society to slough off its misfits as an individual sheds his impurities and his diseases. But New Dealers believe that human want and human distress should be prevented or at least ameliorated.

Good governance can eliminate injustice, destitution and poverty.

Generous, effective, and broadly accessible social welfare policies do not require large government bureaucracies staffed with armies of public servants.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

I have to address the economic conditions of everybody, including, and perhaps first, those who are poor.

I am most supportive of organizations whose goal is to increase the living situation of those less fortunate than myself.

Irrespective of economic theories, we will take decisions in the larger interest of the poor people.

The Modi government started several welfare schemes for poor and realised the dream of corruption-free India.

For me, as the Government of India, the interest of the poorest of the poorest is paramount.

The important thing for the government to do is to help people who cannot help themselves by providing a range of support.

My government is giving residential, health facilities to poor as poverty can be removed only by empowering them.

My only aim is the welfare of the poor of my country and the poor of states like Uttar Pradesh.

If the cause of poverty is marginalization, the cure is inclusion.

A safety net for the poor indeed requires some level of income redistribution.

I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.

There are many commitments I have made for reducing poverty. One is to reform social security. Social security reaches only 44 percent of Mexicans. One of my goals is to give social security to all the people.

I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.