Hillary Clinton Quotes About Poverty

• There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.

  Hillary Clinton

  Education, Opportunity, Hands

  Newseum Address on Internet Freedom, delivered 21 January 2010, Washington, D.C.

• I believe that what I've worked for - women and children, civil rights against poverty, trying to level the playing field for people to have a better chance - is what I still believe is important and what I'm trying to do today.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Believe, Rights

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• At a time of change and challenge at home and abroad, these investments will enhance the security of Americans, assure the future American leadership, and help build the foundations of peace, stability, and prosperity in the years ahead.

  Hillary Clinton

  Home, Years, Challenges

• I am a sensitive person, so it is actually saddening to learn that these poverty-stricken families are most of the time mistreated or looked down upon. Help the poor, like how you would want to be helped if you were in their position.

  Hillary Clinton

  Sensitive Person, Want, Poverty

• When I went off to college, I went believing I was a Republican. And actually I was president of Young Republicans for a couple of months and then I decided that I was much more in the camp of people like, you know, President Johnson - trying to promote civil rights, voting rights, ending poverty.

  Hillary Clinton

  Couple, Believe, College

  Source: www.npr.org

• I think it's important for people to say look, what does each party and each candidate have to offer for you. If you want a better future that is going to be reliant on making smart economic policies, compare my husband's eight years with Ronald Reagan's eight years. 23 million new jobs, more than seven million people lifted out of poverty.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Husband, Smart

• Let's also, my friends, let's raise the minimum wage and support the 5 for 15 so you don't live in poverty.

  Hillary Clinton

  Support, Minimum Wage, Poverty

  Source: time.com

• I want us to raise the national minimum wage, because people who live in poverty should not - who work full-time should not still be in poverty.

  Hillary Clinton

  People, Minimum Wage, Want

  Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

• We have to use all of America's strengths to build a world with more partners and fewer adversaries, more shared responsibility and fewer conflicts, more good jobs and less poverty, more broadly based prosperity with less damage to our environment.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Responsibility, America

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2014). “Hard Choices”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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