War On Poverty Quotes

War On Poverty Quote of the day

There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor.

Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty

Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be beneficiaries of reform.

part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition.

If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes.

The ultimate objective of subsidies should be to empower the poor, to break the cycle of poverty, and become foot-soldiers in our war on poverty.

We must win the war on poverty by enlisting the greatest weapon ever invented - free enterprise

War on nations changes maps. War on poverty maps change.

The war on poverty programs help address the pain of poverty.

If the Fed had a war on abortion like its war on poverty or war on drugs, within five years men would be having abortions!

I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that most people feel like that. And I believe that it ain't over till it's over.

We have to realize that this country in its private sector has been fighting the most successful war on poverty the world has seen for the last 200 years.