John Prescott Quotes

In Rio, 1.4 million of the 6.3 million people live in favelas, or slums. They are all over the city, but favelas are not always a problem - sometimes they can be a solution, if you have the right public policies.

There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the process of reforming the political economy and improving the quality of life of our people and communities.

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.

You need to support human development and human capital as much as possible. And we've had 25 years of programs, great programs. We supported 125,000 surgeries. We fund 15,000 scholarships every year for college and higher education. We gave bicycles for rural areas. We gave laptops.

We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.

It is very difficult to reverse social benefits…

If I could help every ghetto, I would.

By repealing the Child Poverty Act, which forced governments to take real action to tackle child poverty, this government brings a proud chapter of British history to an undignified end. In future the government will measure child poverty not by looking at whether they have any money, but by looking at their so-called 'life chances.'

Fighting poverty is nothing new for the Conservative Party, but during the 1980s the emphasis placed on individualism and prosperity was sometimes seen to crowd out social issues like helping the most vulnerable in society.

Poor children fare worse than rich children on just about everything that social scientists measure.

You cannot fight poverty unless you have stability.

China is a developing country and we regard subsistence as the fundamental human right.

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.

No country now in transition will be able to accommodate demands for either economic security or social justice anytime soon.

The economic development of the country must come first. Education and the raising of the standards of the people will follow. Afterwards political development may be possible.

Making these changes is a matter of life and death for our country, and it will give our people a chance to lead a better life.

The more you improve the condition of these people, the more you cultivate their minds, the more miserable you make them in their present state.

If not for food stamps, Medicaid, and various job programs, I would never have gone on to be the first in my family to go to college, the first black woman to represent my ward on the Cleveland City Council, and, ultimately, a State Senator.

I'm not going to be reduced to the position of being the implementer of Tory cuts in the North.

Poverty is not just about income: it's about aspiration. It's not just about giving people a couple of extra pounds a week, welcome though that is.

I didn't have any personal goals when I came, but after being in politics - after seeing people, their difficulties, their wants - I think our goal has to be to eliminate poverty from India.

My studio's passion is improving the public experience of cities for everyone.

What's wrong with Hell's Kitchen? You don't change a neighborhood by changing its name. You change it by building a school.

This is what I think about poverty: why waste the potential of people? You never know what you've got going in society unless you give people a chance.

A guaranteed basic income has the potential for making civic organizations, families and neighborhoods much more vital, helpful and responsive than they have been in decades.