Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not…

“They invite me to dinner, saying they are in the Embassy’s armoured car. I don’t like this thing of using official vehicles for private…

— Fernando Ballano Gonzalo

The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.

— Olusegun Obasanjo

South Africa does not have a poverty problem. Poverty is a result of denialism of the way corruption taxes poor people, the inefficiencies that…

— Mamphela Ramphele

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as Richard the Lionhearted could have told us). And this is not just a…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“The problem of poverty must force us to innovate, not claim "rights to impose our solutions.”

— C.K. Prahalad

“My great worry is the problem of poverty…Instead of prisons, I would have schools, art and vocational academies, free trade, free love, the abolition…

— Luisa Capetillo

The real solution to the problem of poverty consists in finding how to increase the employment and earning power of the poor.

— Henry Hazlitt

“Where are we going? We're going to try and fulfill Dr. Martin Luther King's dream, and if we Mexican Americans march to Washington, it…

— Rodolfo Gonzalez Lebrero

The problem is poverty. And it hides the problem. We often associate black churches with a history of protest. But prosperity gospel and megachurches…

— Anthony B Pinn

The impact of NCDs is not only affecting the urban populations but also rural poor. This is compounding the basic problem of poverty.

— Marty Natalegawa

By seeing the problem of poverty merely in terms of assistance, we overlook that our enormous economic advantage is deeply tainted by how it…

— Thomas Pogge

Poverty is not just a material problem. Poverty is something wider: it is about powerlessness, about being deprived of basic opportunities and freedom of…

— Johan Norberg

The only really effective means of enabling States to deal with the grave problem of poverty is to provide them with the necessary resources…

— Pope John Paul II

By defining the problem as 'hunger', the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty,…

— Janet Poppendieck