Affirmative Quote by M. Stanton Evans

“Gore Vidal, the American writer, once famously described the American economic system as ‘free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich’.”

— Ha-Joon Chang

This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one…

— Tavis Smiley

If the experts are right in their calculations, then we face the prospect of millions of people retiring into poverty from the American middle…

— Hedrick Smith

“I have no doubt that the elimination of poverty and deprivation is possible by 2020.”

— C.K. Prahalad

“A small portion of our population, over the past two decades, has been chanting incessantly for increased privatization of the material resources of the…

— Paranjoy Guha Thakurta

“Redistribution alone will never be sufficient for sustained, shared improvement in living standards.”

— Edd S. Noell

Ending extreme poverty is possible.

— Winnie Byanyima

“The way I see it, no one in this country should work full-time and still live in poverty—period.”

— Elizabeth Warren

Inequality in the developed world fell for most of the 20th century; we can make it fall for most of the 21st century, too.…

— John Lanchester

We expect that in the next years, the economy will improve. And we expect that extreme poverty will drop from 22 percent to 11…

— Alberto Fujimori

“The results have been devastating. Today, more than half of the people in our world live on less than $2 each per day, and…

— Barry Asmus

“We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before.”

— Herbert Hoover