Ashraf Jehangir Qazi Quotes

Global poverty is falling faster today than at any time in human history.

Without better economic opportunity, you can't have better public security and vice versa.

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

For the first time in America's history, poverty is on the run.

Preventing poverty beats curing it.

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

We need to build an Argentina with zero poverty.

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.

Merely slogans and statements will not remove poverty.

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

There are more and more products with fewer people able to consume them. We have to help those who don't have the economic stability to grow, or one day there will be very few who are able to buy what we're selling.

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

South Korea's economy is still difficult. I will create a country where nobody worries about putting food on the table.

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.

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

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

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.

Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to go toward greater equity. This country does not have a neoliberal economic model anymore. We have put in place a lot of policies that will ensure that economic growth goes hand in hand with social justice.

If we fix our economic system and invest in the human capital of the poor, then we should welcome every new person born as a source of betterment for our world and all of us on it.

Federal assistance helps millions of Americans escape poverty every year by providing the stability needed to take advantage of new opportunities. In fact, it is our safety net that allows full participation in the economy. More Americans purchasing goods means more Americans making them, which means more American jobs.

Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.

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.

The poorhouse is vanishing from among us.... We ... today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land.... We shall soon ... be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation.