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Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.

No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked.

Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

The government never does anything successfully.

Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.

Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.

I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.

We're not programming to conservatives. We're just not eliminating their point of view.