The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
Bill GatesWe know that for every 1 person who get access to the Internet, one new job gets created, and one person gets lifted out of poverty. So in theory, going and connecting everyone on the Internet is a large national and even global priority.
Mark ZuckerbergChina has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them.
Bill GatesA calling is you feel – you look out and see the need – maybe it’s the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it’s the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was – felt called.
Billy GrahamWe can’t leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world’s people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.
Jane GoodallA genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Income inequity has to be addressed.
Joe BidenScience can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.
Stephen HawkingI have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.
Narendra ModiI am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.
Benjamin FranklinWe should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
Ronald ReaganThe peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen into the zone, helping the poor always and bothering the rich as little as possible in the first phases of the war.
Che GuevaraPoverty is the worst form of violence.
Mahatma GandhiWe make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.
Bill GatesI don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.
Christopher HitchensWelfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
Ronald ReaganThe rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
Karl MarxThe most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.
Bill Gates