Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.

It is the quality of lending over the quantity of lending.

It is hard to understand the vast quantity of poverty they have there. It's going to be an eye opener.

World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.

I've never given much thought to grants but now that LeRoi Jones has a Guggenheim I have to consider the possibility of a new era, for good or ill. So if you're sitting down there on a bundle of loose cash I'd appreciate any and all advice as to how I might lay my hands on some of it.

- in a letter to Richard Scowcroft dated 5/13/1965

If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it.