Li Keqiang Quotes

What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.

I feel great identification with the developing world.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

A multi-polar world can not exist without recognising the status and participation of developing countries.

What does peace mean in a world in which the combined wealth of the world's 587 billionaires exceeds the combined gross domestic product of the world's 135 poorest countries?

I know the situation of the Commonwealth generally, and I know that the aim should be to make the Commonwealth much more relevant to the poorer countries.

Engineers in the developed world should be arguing not for protectionism but for trade agreements that seek to establish rules that result in a real rise in living standards. This will ensure that outsourcing is a positive force in the developing nation's economy and not an exploitative one.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

I believe that the war against terrorism and the war against poverty in these times of turmoil go together. So you - when you fight one, you have to fight the other.

We must focus much more on developing countries' own policies and priorities, and increase policy and operational coherence between national, regional and multilateral actors.

Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries.

The more time I spent in developing countries, and the more time I spent talking to poor people, I realized what they want more than anything is a good job.

The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries

All over the globe the U.S. is fighting to protect and develop at least a minority who consume what the U.S. majority can afford.

In the rich countries the poor expect a quantity and quality of commodities beyond the dreams of Louis XIV, while many of the so-called developing countries enjoy much higher economic growth rates than those of industrialized countries at a similar stage of their own histories.

The problems of the Third World—its poverty, its ignorance, its debt—never really seemed to affect Europeans and Americans. No longer. It's a little warmer than it used to be. The water is rising.

To maximise global social welfare, policymakers should strongly encourage the diffusion of knowledge from developed to developing countries.

I believe the conservatives need to push back against the ungrateful habit of blaming the West by pointing repeatedly to the self-inflicted wounds of the Third World.

By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.

You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty.

The benefits of growth have not trickled down. Income inequalities have become one of the biggest global challenges, attracting growing attention not only in academic literature but also among policymakers globally.