Third World Countries Quotes - Page 2

• (Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart.

  Lorrie Moore

  Country, Heart, Despair

  Lorrie Moore (2010). “The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore”, p.134, Faber & Faber

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• The question we Americans need to address, before it is answered for us, is: Does this First World nation wish to become a Third World country? Because that is our destiny if we do not build a sea wall against the waves of immigration rolling over our shores...Who speaks for the Euro-Americans, who founded the USA?...Is it not time to take back America?

  Pat Buchanan

  Country, Wall, Destiny

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• Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried to cast gay men and lesbians as the new enemy, calculating deviants seducing the nation's young, anti-Avon ladies selling sodomy door-to-door. This simply won't wash. Just as seeing the Russians up close and personal on television humanized them, so seeing the lesbian grandmother of two little girls wearing her gold medal with pride makes the notion of otherness, much less deviance, silly and ignorant.

  Anna Quindlen

  Girl, Country, Silly

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• For many of us we are always wanting more - we would be happier if we had such and such. Maybe we should pause for a moment and hear what some people in the third world countries would like to make them happier. 1. Having enough to eat so when you go to sleep at night your stomach doesn't ach. 2. Having shoes on your feet and any kind of clothing to keep the cold out. 3. Having a roof over your head. 4. Having the hope that you'll be lucky enough to get some kind of an education. 5. Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Dream, Country, Believe

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• The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States. We can't let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the US. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are.

  Michael Oppenheimer

  Country, Eugenics, Numbers

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• No. But it's like the argument `don't donate to third-world countries because the money mightn't get to them.' People only say that because it makes them feel better about the fact that they do nothing.

  Melina Marchetta

  Country, Feel Better, People

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.105, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Paris Hilton is going on a goodwill mission to Rwanda. It’s the first time an entire Third World country will have to get immunizations for a visitor.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Country, Humor

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• The only type of men Julia's mother had warned her about were wealthy industrialist who polluted the environment and took advantage of third-world countries. And Republilicans.

  Cathie Linz

  Country, Mother, Men

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• Look at what has happened to Miami. It has become a Third World country. You just pick it up and take it and move it someplace. You would never know you're in the United States of America. You would certainly say you're in a Third World country.

  Tom Tancredo

  Country, Moving, America

  "GOP Rep. Calls Miami 'Third World Country'". www.cbsnews.com. November 30, 2006.

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• Dogs in America get more affection than women in most Third World countries.

  Cesar Millan

  Country, Dog, America

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• Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.

  Rachel Weisz

  Country, Believe, Hollywood

  'I'm a storyteller. I don't save lives', www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2005.

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• If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal.

  Trisha Goddard

  Country, Couple, Advice

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• I’m American. I can’t stand Brazilians. They live in a third-world country anyway, so they’ll go anywhere if there’s a little money. I live in America. I want to be a champion of an American organization.

  Phil Baroni

  Country, Organization, America

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• The United States in many ways resembles a Third World country - far more elevated, but it has many of those structural characteristics: the extreme inequality of wealth, the deterioration of infrastructure because it only serves poor people, predatory operations, huge corruption, and so on.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, People, United States

  "Chomsky: "The Business Elites... Are Instinctive Marxists"". Interview with Keane Bhatt, truth-out.org. November 19, 2010.

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• If we just stop producing stuff, if we stop being so capitalist, we stop taking resources from other third world countries, we'll be happy.

  Glenn Beck

  Country, World, Stuff

  "Take the 'The Story of Stuff' Quiz". "The Glenn Beck Program" with Glenn Beck, www.foxnews.com. September 23, 2009.

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• I believe that when we overdo our military aggressiveness, what it does it actually weakens our national defense. I mean, we stood up to the Soviets. They had 40,000 nuclear weapons. Now we're fretting day in and day - night about third-world countries that have no army, navy or air force.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Military, Believe

  The Republicans' first Presidential candidates debate at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2007.

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• In America, we happen to be living in a third world country from the point of view of economic and social development. I came back from New York yesterday and I took the fastest train in the country, the Acela. My wife and I took the New York-Boston train sixty years ago - it wasn't called the Acela then - and I think it's improved by about fifteen minutes since then. Any other country in the world would be about half the time. In fact when it's riding along the Connecticut turnpike it's barely keeping up with traffic, which is just scandalous.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, New York, Thinking

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• A focus on people's health and well-being must be the core of family planning research and policy. This may seem self-evident, but the realities of program implementation in third world countries has often shown that the health and well-being of individuals is not a priority.

  Ruth Simmons

  Country, Reality, Self

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• There is a considerable polarization taking place here, increasing the gap between rich and poor. It's most dramatic in Third World countries, of course, but in the rich countries it's also very noticeable.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Rich Countries, World

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• [President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their fellow citizens associated with Third World countries and the novels of Dickens was as dangerous as any battlefield enemy.

  Anna Quindlen

  Country, Political Will, Enemy

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• You land at LaGuardia, you land at Kennedy, you land at LAX, you land at Newark, and you come in from Dubai and Qatar and you see these incredible - you come in from China, you see these incredible airports, and you land - we've become a third world country.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Airports, Dubai

  Donald Trump during Presidential Debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• Proper driving etiquette demands that you basically get close enough to a car in front of you at a busy intersection that it would mean that in certain third-world countries, or South Carolina, you would have to get married.

  Celia Rivenbark

  Country, Mean, Car

  Celia Rivenbark (2013). “Rude Bitches Make Me Tired: Slightly Profane and Entirely Logical Answers to Modern Etiquette Dilemmas”, p.156, Macmillan

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• I tend to prefer traveling in the Third World countries. Like Ethiopia. Or Eritrea.

  John Gimlette

  Country, Eritrea, World

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• [Barack] Obama, for example, he has not given up on cap-and-trade. Now, he has not been able to pass cap-and-trade, but cap-and-trade is all about redistribution of wealth in a global basis - taking money out of this country and giving it to third-world countries on the other end of the ocean. And that is redistribution of wealth in a global basis. It's fundamental Marxism.

  Rafael Cruz

  Country, Ocean, Giving

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• When we have $20 trillion in debt, and our country's a mess, you know, it's one thing to have $20 trillion in debt and our roads are good and our bridges are good and everything's in great shape, our airports. Our airports are like from a third world country.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Airports, Bridges

  Donald Trump during Presidential Debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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