Get kids out of poverty. Poverty is devastating.

Kids who are middle class, socioeconomically, are surrounded by mentors. They have coaches, teachers, they have family friends, their parents have friends. They might…

— Soledad O'Brien

When the kids see the poverty in their neighborhood, but they see these successful kids who come from the countries they come from, come…

— Rafe Esquith

Going in is really more of an acknowledgment that kids in poverty, in their situations, can get out of it, and it doesn't always…

— Marshall Faulk

You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.

— Milton Friedman

Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.

— Ronald Reagan

For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.

— Rand Paul

Poverty is poverty. At the end of the day, people want a job.

— Kevin de Leon

It doesn't matter what color you are. Poverty is poverty. Inmates come from all walks of life. We have to make sure we look…

— David Fizdale

We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won

— Ronald Reagan

The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a…

— Mother Teresa

In today's world, people experience two types of poverty: the poverty caused by lack of food, clothing and shelter, and the poverty caused by…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

I didn’t create poverty. This church didn’t create poverty. Poverty is not an issue, human suffering is not an issue at all, they were…

— Peter Akinola

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do…

— Narendra Modi

“There is no greater poverty, than poverty of the mind.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

And then another letter had come from Christopher, so devastating that Amelia wondered how mere scratches of ink on paper could rip someone's soul…

— Lisa Kleypas