A Quote by John Bishop

Comic Relief funds projects that help lift people out of poverty.

John Bishop

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Comic Comic Relief Funds Help Lift Out People Poverty Projects Relief

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John Bishop
British - Comedian
Born: November 30, 1966

No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty.

John H. McWhorter

Can trade help lift people out of poverty? It can, and it has.

Arancha Gonzalez

Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.

Nicholas Johnson

Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.

Michael Franti

Educated and productive young people are needed to help lift their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world.

Anne M. Mulcahy

Educated and productive young people are needed to help #? LIFT their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world.

Anne M. Mulcahy

Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.

Mitt Romney

Financial inclusion helps lift people out of poverty and can help speed economic development. It can draw more women into the mainstream of economic activity, harnessing their contributions to society.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.

Joseph Stiglitz

The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sounds economic development. And that same path can lift us to a new, green economy - one with the power to lift people out of poverty while respecting and repairing the environment.

Van Jones

You are not going to lift everybody out of poverty through the kindness of wealthy people.

Winnie Byanyima

You can't lift people out of poverty simply by tweaking the tax system, or by raising the minimum wage by a few cents, or by reducing student debt slightly. These might be necessary components of a larger anti-poverty program, but you have to accept they are pieces of a much larger puzzle.

Sasha Abramsky

A lot of times I play the villain or the comic relief, and I get to kind of play the comic relief to a degree, which is fun, but I also get to say, "You are created in the image in God. You are a perfect child of God. And this part of you is the heart of who you are. You're not alone, and you're okay just the way you are."

Missi Pyle

I hope we are able to shift debate over to the Middle East and change this debate to how we help the people in their home countries rather than believing we can be their relief valve for the poverty and the grief that`s in the world by bringing people here.