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I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.

You can't raise the aspirations of a child and then leave them hanging. Poverty can't be solved by a project. It's solved by a relationship, collaboration.

You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want to live any other way.

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers.

I myself am from a very poor background; I experienced firsthand poverty in this country, and that is not unrelated to my desire, from the moment I became president, to make a priority of poverty reduction in this country.

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.