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It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.

Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.

The blame for the 9/11 attacks lays squarely and exclusively with the Al-Qaeda network.

It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of severe poverty in countries that are ruled by obvious thugs and crooks.

What causes terrorism is disrespect, a lack of justice, and poverty.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Poverty is about people lacking the tools they need to get on in life. And solving it is about tackling educational failure, antisocial behaviour, debt problems and addiction, and of course it's about work.