Poor Countries Quotes
63 quotes by 52 authors
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When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.
— Gary Bauer
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I am grateful to President George W. Bush for PEPFAR, which is saving the lives of millions of people in poor countries and to both…
— William J. Clinton
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School feeding not only fills stomachs, but has a proven track record of boosting enrollment, attendance and academic performance. For just pennies a day per…
— Drew Barrymore
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Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
— A. A. Gill
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It's not funny at all that we do all that advertising for children. Why is advertising for children allowed? What possible reason can there be…
— Emma Thompson
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The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today, in very different…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Aid is the process by which the poor in rich countries subsidize the rich in poor countries.
— Peter Thomas Bauer
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If the level and amount of consumption and waste of the western rich countries ever reaches the poor countries, it will mean the end of…
— Robert Muller
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A nation as such does not give aid to another nation. More precisely, the common citizens of our country, through their taxes, give to the…
— Michael Parenti
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In a perfect world what poor countries at the lowest rungs of economic development need is not a multi-party democracy, but in fact a decisive…
— Dambisa Moyo
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Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of resources…
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. Inevitably freedom will…
— Eskinder Nega
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Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.
— Ron Paul
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Poor countries are being forced to deal with an unprecedented health crisis without the means to tackle it . Governments can only show how seriously…
— Annie Lennox
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A considerable proportion of the developed world's prosperity rests on paying the lowest possible prices for the poor countries' primary products and on exporting high-cost…
— Philip Agee
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Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.
— William J. Clinton
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Our poor country is fighting at an extraordinary hard conjuncture of an unparalleled war and internal problems such as we have never seen before, and…
— Alexander Guchkov
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The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and poor…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course — it is just more printed paper. Otherwise, why is it that there are still…
— Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are rich. Indeed, if…
— Margaret Thatcher
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