Pauline Hanson Quotes

I don't consider the first-world concerns any less important than the third-world ones.

Nobody in America lives at the survival level, Most people in the world would love to live the way poor Americans live.

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

While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty.

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. 'Elysium' could be a metaphor for just Jo'burg, but it's also a metaphor for the Third World and the First World. And in science fiction, separation of wealth is a really interesting idea to mess with.

The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there.

Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.

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

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.

People in the U.K. don't imagine what it is to live in extreme poverty here in Colombia or anywhere in the so-called Third World.

I don't mind America becoming a Third World country. The weather is better in the Third World than it is where I live in New Hampshire. And household help will be much cheaper.

You are only as rich as where you come from, and Nigeria has a lot of poverty.

I understand we're on our way to being a Third World country. Could we just stop at 'Second World' before we get there?

The standard of living of the average American has to decline.

Mitt Romney said he's not concerned about the very poor. What he means is people making less than a million.

The clearest way to know whether you are with a poor person in America is not by the logo on the clothes, because we all wear pretty much the same anymore. It's by looking into their eyes and seeing whether they look into yours, and seeing what kind of teeth they have.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.

The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.

Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.

And living in Australia I am relatively well off.