Come up Quote by Bill Gates

“...poor countries are poor because those who have power make choices that create poverty. They get it wrong not by mistake or ignorance but…

— Anonymous

The only way really to influence countries, in terms of poverty, is to get them to change their policies and get them to understand…

— James Wolfensohn

Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people. There has been a tremendous concentration…

— Helen Clark

Government is rather ill-suited and poorly equipped to alleviate the plight of the poor. It lacks moral rules or standards, and is devoid of…

— Hans F. Sennholz

Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.

— Joy Baluch

Governments mostly don't do much. And you've also got to understand the level of incompetence out there. Nobody knows what they're doing. They just…

— Jimmy Breslin

Poverty is too complex to be answered with a one-size-fits-all approach, and if there is any place that illustrates that complexity, as well as…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

It is more difficult to fight poverty in a rich country than in a poor one.

— Mother Teresa

Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives…

— Lee H. Hamilton

Government intervention is not solving the problems, and in fact the governments around the world that are intervening the most in their economies are…

— Oliver DeMille

Government relief tends constantly to get out of hand. And even when it is kept within reasonable bounds it tends to reduce the incentives…

— Henry Hazlitt