Poor Country Quotes

Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.

We don't want a country populated by children feeding themselves from garbage dumps.

Going back to the discussion we were having about immigration reform, some of the most challenging discussions I've had are with activists who essentially would argue that any immigrant from Central America, let's say, who gets here to this country should be allowed to stay because their country is dangerous, their country is poor, and the opportunities for that mom and that kid are much greater here, and why would you send them back?

It is more difficult to fight poverty in a rich country than in a poor one.

Nicaragua is a World Bank and International Monetary Fund designated 'heavily indebted poor country,' with little legal ability to control its economic future: Everything is for sale. And once Nicaraguans decide to cash in and sell their houses or farms, they have to look far inland for anything affordable.

Oppression makes a poor country.

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 privileged elites of another country. As someone once said: foreign aid is when the poor people of a rich country give money to the rich people of a poor country.

It turns out Cuba has this incredible healthcare system for a very poor country.

His position makes him one of the richest men in the world coming from one of the poorest countries of the world.

I think that we are not in the position that we used to be. I think we were a very powerful, very wealthy country. And we're a poor country now. We're a debtor nation.

Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country, the only consolation people can have is the one that comes from their beliefs.

It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.

As long as we have a poor country bordering California, it's going to be very difficult to win strikes.

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 and investment, but because we are deprived of the basic institutions and practices that make for good government.

Whose fault is it if poor Ireland still continues poor?

I come from one of the poorest countries in the world, and Cameroon is also one of the most beautiful countries in the world.

If your Income Taxes go to help out the less fortunate, there could be no legitimate kick against it in the world. This is becoming the richest, and the poorest Country in the world. Why? Why, on account of an unequal distribution of the money.

I grew up down in the hills of Virginia. I can be in Kentucky in 20 minutes, Tennessee in 20 minutes or in the state of West Virginia in 20 minutes. And it's down in the Appalachian Mountains, down there. And it's sort of a poorer country. Most of the livelihood is coal mining and logging, working in the woods and things like that. Most people has a hard life down that way.

Who dare to love their country, and be poor.

Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world.