that you only have a realistic hope of ending poverty if you can somehow curb the destruction and waste and the devastation of war.

“I hope Howard Dean is like George McGovern. I thought I was a pretty good candidate in 1972. …It's true that I lost to Richard Nixon in the general election by a big margin. But that wasn't my mistake. That was the mistake of the voters…”

Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction,

a pretense of weapons of mass destruction -- let's face it, poverty is a weapon of mass destruction.

Problems that threaten species like the destruction of habitats and natural resources often contribute to poverty.

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.