Rajiv Shah quotes

Rajiv Shah quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“If we continue on the trend we're on, we can reduce extreme poverty by more than 60 percent-lifting more than 700 million people out of dollar-and-a-quarter a day poverty and back from the brink of hunger and malnutrition. But if we accelerate our progress from 3 percent annual reduction to over 6 percent and focus on key turnarounds in some difficult countries, we could get a 90 percent reduction. We could essentially eliminate dollar-and-a-quarter head count poverty.”
-- Rajiv Shah

Source : Rajiv Shah's Remarks at The Aspen Institute, 2012-2017.usaid.gov. August 1, 2012.

#Country Quotes #Keys Quotes #People Quotes
“We need to help companies find profit opportunities abroad, not photo opportunities.”
-- Rajiv Shah

#Opportunity Quotes #Needs Quotes #Helping Quotes
“Nowhere is this challenge more critical -- and the need for action more pressing -- than in the Horn of Africa. From Kenya to Ethiopia, Djibouti to Somalia, the devastating consequences of drought, desertification and land degradation are playing out before our eyes. The worst drought in 60 years has placed more than 13.3 million people -- predominately women and children -- in need of emergency assistance.”
-- Rajiv Shah

#Children Quotes #Eye Quotes #Years Quotes
“Development is a fundamental part of our national security. It is extreme poverty- the realities of access to water and food- which create the long-term drivers of our insecurity. Most wars are fought over scarce resources and that is going to accelerate in the future.”
-- Rajiv Shah

Source : "Rajiv Shah: Our aid work is for the American people". Interview with Madeleine Bunting, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2011.

#War Quotes #Reality Quotes #Water Quotes
“Our aid is work for the American people.”
-- Rajiv Shah

#People Quotes #Poverty Quotes #Aids Quotes
“By doing good, we do well.”
-- Rajiv Shah

#Poverty Quotes #Doing Good Quotes #Wells Quotes

“When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit. And if it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree.”
“You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.”
“A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.”
“A recent report by UNEP and Interpol estimated that between 50 to 90 per cent of logging in key tropical countries of the Amazon basin, Central Africa and South East Asia is being carried out by organized crime. This threatens not only attempts to eradicate poverty and deforestation but also efforts to combat climate change.”
“Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.”

Source : "A Lost Chord" l. 1 (1858)
“I think no matter what you look like, the key is to first of all be happy with yourself. And then you know if you want to try to improve things that you don't like about yourself, then do it after your appreciate yourself.”

Source : Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.160, Random House
“I've always believed it's important to make the invisible visible. And valuing that which has been taken for granted is something that I've always instinctually known is the key to the kind of society I want to live in and raise my children in.”

Source : "'An incredible container for transformation'". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. May 9, 2014.
“Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won't put these futures back together. All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to bring me back to zero.”
“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”

Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK
“There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.”

Source : Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

You may also like:

Barack Obama
44th U.S. President
George W. Bush
43rd U.S. President
Hillary Clinton
Former United States Secretary of State
Jacob Lew
United States Secretary of the Treasury
Jill Biden
Wife of the Vice President of the United States
Jim Yong Kim
Physician
John F. Kennedy
35th U.S. President
John Holdren
Professor
Michelle Obama
First Lady of the United States
Mitt Romney
Former Governor of Massachusetts
Patrick Leahy
United States Senator
Ray Mabus
United States Secretary of the Navy
Susan Rice
United States Ambassador to the United Nations
Timothy Geithner
Former United States Secretary of the Treasury
Tom Vilsack
United States Secretary of Agriculture
Vladimir Putin
President of Russia
William J. Clinton
42nd U.S. President
William Joseph Burns
Ashton Carter
United States Secretary of Defense
Melanne Verveer
Political leader