Dan Bongino Quotes

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.

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

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.

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

Pope Francis emphatically does not buy the argument that poverty can be alleviated by the 'trickle down' effects of wealth creation. He is deaf to arguments that the global economy has brought a billion people out of poverty. He is convinced, in short, that the best and only way to expel poverty is fairer distribution of the world's goods.

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.

But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.

It is because of capitalism that we can pay for services to poor people that we don't even know.

Reducing poverty is in our own interest.

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

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

Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea.

Surplus RBI reserves can be used for poverty alleviation.

We need to build an Argentina with zero poverty.

I try to deal with the poverty gap - to do policies for all of us rather than only for the wealthy.

Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty.

You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.

If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.

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.

I am still a socialist. I am a left-of-center politician. I believe that in Africa, if you see the poverty around us, you can't afford to be anything else.

The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.

All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed.

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

I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it.