Poverty Quote by Andrew Cuomo Download Open image “There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty” — Andrew Cuomo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poverty War War on poverty
Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Can we not wage a war and emerge victorious against poverty. Let us defeat poverty. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
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… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population, there will be no lack of poets and preachers and essayists and philosophers to invent the necessary reasons and gild the infamy with righteousness. To this righteousness there is, of course, never an adequate reply. Thus a war… — John T. Flynn Copy Share
“Ah, yes, poverty," said Chatterjee and smiled as if the word had deeply ironic connotations. "Indeed, there is much poverty here. Much squalor by… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together. — Marc Forne Molne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel. — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
Their problem is not me and the Democrats; their problem is themselves. Who are they? Are they these extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon,… — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption. — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause. — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of… — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
You can be a lender who wants to compete and have a better product, but you just can't get to the students. The schools… — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much this country was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share
I know that in the rap game you've got a lot of people, that come from poverty, was born in poverty and if it… — Jon Connor Copy Share Image
Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate,… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives, neighbors, or the community--are more likely to be overburdened by the demands of their babies and to be unable to respond to them adequately. Parents who experience severe poverty or economic insecurity, who cannot satisfy their own basic… — Sheila Kamerman Copy Share
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when the official U.S. measure of poverty was developed in 1963, a poor American family had an income twenty-nine times greater than the average per capita income in the rest of the world. An individual American… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share
“In places where government priorities and market imperatives create a world so capricious that to help a neighbor is to risk your ability to feed your family, and sometimes even your own liberty, the idea of the mutually supportive poor community is demolished. The poor blame one another for the choices of governments and markets, and we who are not… — Katherine Boo Copy Share
All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold… — Peter Cook Copy Share Image
Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families. — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
