What you don't want to do - if you're concerned about poverty, if you're concerned about providing opportunity - you don't want to rip the bottom rung of the ladder of opportunity away from people.
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There's a lot of freedom in having nothing. You don't have responsibility. You have nobody to answer to. But I'd rather deal without the poverty.
To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
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 are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
You can't not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.
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.
You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.
The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden.
We are one of the richest countries in the world, and there is absolutely no reason why anyone should have to live in poverty.
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