Country Quote by Raveena Tandon

In this great country of ours, it is inexcusable that so many children grow up in poverty and despair. The well-being of our children…

— Jimmy Carter

I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should…

— Joe Klein

It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.

— Chris Van Hollen

We adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children.

— Kailash Satyarthi

Kids in high poverty are much more expensive to educate and need much more support... When they're packed into a classroom of 40 people,…

— Gretchen Whitmer

Poverty is a trap: it should be eradicated. It's no real answer just lifting a few children from families stuck on low wages into…

— Dawn Foster

I grew up in poverty as a child, my parents had me when they were very young. They didn't have money growing up.

— Wes Streeting

As a child, I have seen what poverty is, and I try, to the best of my limits, to ensure that no kid should…

— Jackie Shroff

We do nothing for children between the ages of zero and five. And we seem to be quite happy to have children growing up…

— Alison Gopnik

The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need: it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of…

— Jay-Z

What you see around the world is that poverty is not destiny. In other countries, much more systemically, student after student, school after school,…

— Arne Duncan

I've seen a lot of poverty - coming up as a young child, lost hopes and dreams and people that never had a chance…

— Maxine Waters