Enrique Pena Nieto Quotes

The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions.

If I care about poverty, I have to care a lot about investments in the private sector. The private sector creates the vast majority of jobs in the world, and social protection only goes so far.

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

Today we are ending welfare as we know it.

Preventing poverty beats curing it.

In 1935, the year Social Security was created, the poverty rate for seniors was over 70%.

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

And I have a plan to do even better, to end welfare as we know it

The poverty we see in America is now too widespread, and too complex, for easy fixes. But I do think we can reimagine many of our institutions and can create new ones in ways that would be effective. We could, for example, create social insurance systems, similar to social security, such as that we went through in 2008-9. We could create a financial transaction tax, oil profit taxes and a fairer estate tax system, and we could plow much of the revenue raised from these into job training programs, into better education infrastructure, into an expanded Earned Income Tax Credit.

Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined.

Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might.

It has to have a payroll tax that's dedicated to Social Security. The Social Security tax has been very successful over the years in raising almost all of our elderly citizens 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.

Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty.

Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

Tax credits are designed to help people who work hard but who, through no fault of their own, don't earn enough to keep their families out of poverty.

What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.

Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has played an enormous and necessary role in keeping Latinas out of poverty.

Through my studies, I became increasingly disillusioned with the international aid system. I think we systematically deny poor people the chance to engage as equals in the global economic order. At best, we give them handouts or tiny loans and hope they will suffer a bit less from extreme poverty. We don't view them as equals.

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

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

I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of economic development.

Our Hispanic community needs to understand how important the Social Security system is for not only its retired citizens, but also its disabled workers.

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.