Rich Countries Quotes

Rich Countries Quote of the day

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

A developed country isn’t a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.

Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.

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

Subsidy Quotes:Nigeria is not an oil rich country. We are an oil producing country.

Aid is the process by which the poor in rich countries subsidize the rich in poor countries.

Senator John Kerry released his plan today to eliminate the deficit. He said all we have to do is find a really rich country like Switzerland and marry it.

We should be a rich country again, and if we do that, we can leave Social Security.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

Chile is not a rich country in terms of gas, or oil or coal, but we are extremely rich in terms of the energies of the future.

To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.

Decades of Saddam’s rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one.

Rich countries don't need as many children. We used to need kids to work in the fields as farm hands, to crawl on their bellies into coal mines. Well, kids are more like luxury objects now.

The United States is unique among the rich countries, developed countries, in not having some kind of a national health-care system.

Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.

Rich countries want unfettered access to poor countries' markets, which are often heavily protected by tariffs, but they don't want to give up all the protections for their own goods and services.

Rich countries do civil wars with tweets and votes.

Funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even one percent of what is needed. This glaring injustice must be addressed at Copenhagen in December .

A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor countries to put into Swiss bank accounts.

Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free.

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

The rich countries are rich because of their practices at home, and because of their readiness to adopt and adapt new things, such as Chinese inventions or New World crops.

The United States and rich countries cannot change Africa from within. It has to impose reform on Africa; it has to come from within.

We say the United States is a rich country, but how can we be rich when millions of poor American children go to bed hungry?