Bill Bradley Quotes

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

More than one billion people in the world live on a dollar a day or less. Nothing keeps them poor more than barriers and subsidies in wealthy countries, which cost the developing world much more than it gets in aid.

Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.

Global poverty is falling faster today than at any time in human history.

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.

The only remedy for Mexico's poverty which has appealed to our politicians has been to contract foreign loans, which have never been paid, and to invite foreign capital to invest in Mexico.

These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.

It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.

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

We must embark on a bold new program for ... the improvement and growth of undeveloped areas. More than half the people of the world are living in conditions approaching misery .... For the first time in history, humanity possesses the knowledge and skill to relieve the suffering of these people.

What must a poor nation do when its very sustenance depends on the remains and bits that the nations gracefully throw them, once they have had their fill…. Our planet is rich enough to provide for all of us, so why this tragic war for life which has been clouding our lives for generations?

Never forget that there are rich people in poor countries and poor people in rich countries.

Global poverty is a powder keg ignitable by our own indifference.

The association of poverty with progress is the enigma of our times.

You're not going to solve the problems of poverty in the world with less energy.

In the first phase of economic development you have rising inequality.

When the World Economic Forum was established in 1971, the global population was four billion, of which 50% lived in 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.

While economic development [in Egypt] made a few people rich, it left many more worse off. As people felt less and less free, they also felt less and less provided for.

The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.

I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb.

There are more and more products with fewer people able to consume them. We have to help those who don't have the economic stability to grow, or one day there will be very few who are able to buy what we're selling.

I'd worked at the World Bank briefly as an undergrad and studied poverty levels around the world - particularly those earning less than $1.25 a day.

The poverty one still sees in America today is more shocking to me than anything I have seen in Ethiopia or Calcutta or Manila, and has made me, as someone living in a society of great wealth and someone who's never had to worry about the next meal, think seriously about what universal responsibility really means.

The First World became a popular phrase in about the 1970s and '80s. The World Bank then began categorizing countries in different categories, advanced to the least developed.