My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me…

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to…

— Narendra Modi

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

Get kids out of poverty. Poverty is devastating.

— Edward Zigler

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

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

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I want to work for the poor in my country.

— Narendra Modi

We need to make sure that access to a curative drug doesn't become a yardstick by which poverty is eventually measured. Doing so requires…

— Scott Gottlieb

Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.

— Margaret Sanger