During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty.… — Iqbal Quadir Copy Share Image
Extreme weather events continue to grow more frequent and intense in rich and poor countries alike, not only devastating lives, but also… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
This may be the one clear truth of the so-called border issue: Put a poor country next to a rich one and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
What is the Obama Doctrine? It seems to be one of disengagement, to try to ignore the hot, religious, dry, poor countries… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and… — Omar Bongo Copy Share Image
While a few poor countries are catching up with the rich world, the differences between the richest and poorest individuals around the… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“...the road, rail, and port systems are so bad that poor countries cannot develop the scale of operations necessary to achieve high… — William W. Lewis Copy Share Image
I've been studying how quickly we can get energy out to the poor countries - a lot of which are in Africa… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I'm very skeptical of the amount of money that goes into military expenditure, not just in the poor countries [but] also in… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
If the level and amount of consumption and waste of the western rich countries ever reaches the poor countries, it will mean… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
The interesting thing is, everybody focuses on the global warming as an environmental issue, as something outside our daily lives. But actually… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course — it is just more printed paper. Otherwise, why is it that… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Sometimes it looks as if, the better off they [nations] become, the bigger do they conceive the gap between what is actually… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
There's a transparency revolution sweeping the world. The more you can have transparency of payments, the more you'll be able to follow… — Michael Elliott Copy Share Image
If one is talking to a finance minister of a poor country, moral arguments tend not to get very far. But if… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between… — Nursultan Nazarbayev Copy Share Image
Fundamentalism is not bred in poverty. There are plenty of poor countries in the world that don't have violence because amid the… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
A lot of people say that India has been held back by its democracy. But lets remember that, despite being a poor… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
I don't see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil high. This will not… — Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Copy Share Image
Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a perfect world what poor countries at the lowest rungs of economic development need is not a multi-party democracy, but in… — Dambisa Moyo Copy Share Image
The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If you withdraw the incredible focus on polio, it will spread back, and in poor countries you'll get something like 100,000 cases… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I'm very moved to be here today, ... Our lives are now much better, but Vietnam remains a very poor country. We… — Ho Chi Minh Copy Share Image
More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
We must help all our young people to understand that ours is still a very poor country, that we cannot change this… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Listen to me: Life is not about principles; it's about happiness.' 'But if you don't have any principles, and if you don't… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
In many poor countries, if the daughter is told who she's going to marry, and told that she's going to live in… — Pietra Rivoli Copy Share Image
The main difference lies in wage levels, which is because our workers are not yet as well trained as in other countries.… — Nguyen Minh Triet Copy Share Image
Rich white people show up in a poor country to pursue their leisure-time fun, get served by black and brown people, and… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
Rich countries have 'kicked away the ladder' by forcing free-market, free-trade policies on poor countries. Already established countries do not want more… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
The great question for our time is, how to make sure that the continuing scientific revolution brings benefits to everybody rather than… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons.… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We [US] are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
School feeding not only fills stomachs, but has a proven track record of boosting enrollment, attendance and academic performance. For just pennies… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
Colombia was a big wheat producer in the 1950's. That was eliminated by what sounds like a nice plan, called "Food for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In Mexico, a poor country, higher education is of quite good quality -- and is free. Ten years ago the government tried… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
![“I'm very skeptical of the amount of money that goes into military expenditure, not just in the poor countries [but] also in the rich. I think it's one of the most massive wastes in the world, but education is [at the] other end. It's the bearer of the greatest fruits that mankind has ever known.” quote by Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/16a/amartya-sen-2518_amount_i-m-very-skeptical-of-the-amount-of-mone_685148.jpg)
![“Sometimes it looks as if, the better off they [nations] become, the bigger do they conceive the gap between what is actually their lot and what would be desirable, while in the poor countries large masses of people seem to be satisfied by merely surviving.” quote by Gunnar Myrdal](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/95c/gunnar-myrdal-25477_better-off_sometimes-it-looks-as-if-the-better-off_2646793.jpg)
![“We [US] are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per person but in absolute. This is another issue where hopefully we will take a long-term approach which, even though we sometimes have a hard time doing that, it's easier for…” quote by Bill Gates](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1c9/bill-gates-137_absolutes_we-us-are-the-biggest-per-person-by-a-su_3176940.jpg)
