Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created.

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.

I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

The internal conditions in Iran are worsening in all aspects. Poverty and unemployment are becoming more severe, despite the fact that Iran has turned into a developed and industrialized country.

People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.

These Americans are among the working poor with full-time jobs earning $5.15 an hour. Millions fall into this boat, even more when you consider that the poverty line has not been adequately adjusted to reflect the true level of poverty in this country.

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

Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of the recovery. Because those green dollars are the hardest working dollars in the history of American politics. That same dollar that is being used to cut energy bills, is also cutting global warming gas emissions, is also cutting unemployment, is also cutting poverty, through retrofits it's also raising the value of homes, is also by cleaning the air, cutting asthma rates.

People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.