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Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

We have not yet reached the goal but... we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

By seeing the problem of poverty merely in terms of assistance, we overlook that our enormous economic advantage is deeply tainted by how it accumulated over the course of one historical process that has devastated the societies and cultures of four continents.

There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success.

We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.

With political will and strategic initiatives, we can prevent more and more of our global neighbors from falling into the abyss of poverty and instead give future generations the opportunities they need to rise to their fullest potential.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.