Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.
Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.
It is more difficult to fight poverty in a rich country than in a poor one.
Everyone in the Chinese economic world knows that the country is not going to move out of cheap-workhouse status, toward the realm of 'real' rich-country corporate power and prosperity, unless (among other changes) it begins removing these price distortions.
Iceland is a rich country, but in the early 21st century, this prosperity got to our heads, and in 2008, it collapsed.
It is unconscionable that a rich country like the United States has made access to higher education so difficult for those at the bottom and middle.
We don’t like to call ourselves an empire but in the process of becoming the richest country the world has ever known we have dominated many other people.
Bangladesh is not a rich country, but we have a big heart.
I see the insurance issue, the coverage of people for healthcare in our country as a huge moral issue. The richest country in the world to have 47 million people without health insurance is ridiculous.
But you see, a rich country like America can perhaps afford to be stupid.
Afghanistan fortunately is one of the richest countries in terms of water, mineral resources, location and human capital.
If the U.S. is the richest country in the world, why is it also the most unequal?
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.
Iran is a rich country, and if the people of this country are poor, it's because of the wrong policies of the government.
Decades of Saddam’s rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one.
The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.
It is rather a shame for a rich country like ours ... that it should allow those who have toiled all their days to end in penury and possible starvation.
1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor
We are the richest country in the world. We spend more on health care than any other country. Yet we have the worst health care in the Western world. Come on. We can do better than this.
India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.
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.
There is no reason, in the capital city of the richest country in the world, for anybody to be hungry.
We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the world. Creative artists are always begging, but always being used when it's time to show us at our best.
We should be a rich country again, and if we do that, we can leave Social Security.
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.
It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We don't consider ourselves idealistic; we're thoughtfully trying to make a beautiful health care model.
