Citizens Quote by Ernie Fletcher

The trouble with poverty, as an issue, is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general public.

— Paul Krugman

There are people in communities who are actually out there fighting poverty eye-to-eye, soul-to-soul, in neighborhoods that actually do well, that succeed. But for…

— Paul Ryan

My government has been playing catch-ups building the schools, hospitals, roads and transport links our state needs to deal with our growing population after…

— Gladys Berejiklian

Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.

— Holly Near

The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival.

— Anonymous

I am driven by a desire to see poverty end and economic security be a guaranteed capacity for every person. Most of the impediments…

— Stacey Abrams

The absence of state capacity - that is, of the services and protections that people in rich countries take for granted - is one…

— Angus Deaton

“Top-down government breeds irresponsible individuals, and the confiscation of civil society by the state leads to a widespread refusal among the citizens to act…

— Roger Scruton

I see an America where poverty is defeated by opportunity, not enabled by a government check.

— Mitt Romney

Without financial literacy, divorce rates soar, families rupture, and women stay with abusive men for financial security. A lack of jobs contributes to riots…

— John Hope Bryant

My government is giving residential, health facilities to poor as poverty can be removed only by empowering them.

— Ram Nath Kovind

Like working families all across the state, we must find a way to make government live within its means.

— Anonymous