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Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

If war is the solution, why didn't Roosevelt declare war on poverty?

When you question this war on poverty, you get all the criticisms from adherents to the status quo who just don't want to see anything change. We got to have the courage to face that down, just as we did in the welfare reform of the late 1990s, and if we succeeded, we can help resuscitate this culture and get people back to work.

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

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.

Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.

Around the time President Lyndon B. Johnson was declaring a War on Poverty in the 1960s, federal, state and local governments began accelerating a veritable War on the Private Sector.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.