Third World Quotes

If anybody in America or in the third world would pay me to do something I love, then I would give it my all. I am not ready to give it up.

If I write a crappy comic book, it doesn't cost the budget of an emergent Third World nation. When you've got these kinds of sums involved in creating another two hours of entertainment for Western teenagers, I feel it crosses the line from being merely distasteful to being wrong.

It hurts your heart to see New Orleans, the place where I'm from, looking like a Third World country. I want to let my family members that I haven't been able to get in contact with know that I love them, my prayers are with them and I will do everything in my power to help.

Most of the infected people are in Third World countries who can't afford and don't have access to these drugs.

Making air travel more expensive is certainly not the way to help the third world.

The principles are clear and explicit. The free market is fine for the third world and its growing counterpart at home. Mothers with dependent children can be sternly lectured on the need for self-reliance, but not dependent executives and investors, please. For them, the welfare state must flourish.

It is simply unconscionable for a huge company like Nike to go to Third World countries -- about 97 percent of their workers are in poor, Third World countries, many of them are women -- and ruthlessly exploit these people, paying them 15 or 20 cents an hour.

The work on a cruise ship is extremely difficult if you aren't a third-world employee. If an American is unhappy with their job, they'll tell you to take this job and stick it where the sun doesn't shine.

It was almost like being in a Third World country in America. What really hit me was seeing all the displaced people. The whole beach was devastated. It smelled like decay.

As somebody who grew up next to a third-world country, I have seen what is going to happen to the future of America if we do not get serious about the immigration issue. If you want to have a nation of a few wealthy people and massive amounts of poor, uneducated people, you can go south to that.

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

What's important is that we recognize the falsehood of the notion that the Third World should be abandoned because it's a waste of time.

Democracy is not a neat process, it is a complicated process. We are seeing a lot of that 'third world country' angst in our country, with a lot of loss of confidence and concerns from the 2000 election. And I would hate to think we will end up in that same scenario of possibly feeling like we are a third world country and no one trusts the government to count the votes right.

The exchange rate between first-world lives and third-world lives in disaster stories in the media is about 50:1.

When you go to the third world you expect to see the third world, ... but you don't expect to see the third world in the United States.

The 1998 missile strike on the Sudan was an unannounced, unprovoked attack that destroyed that Third World nation's only medicine factory. Yet it provoked no opposition outcry on the left. The Clinton air strike violated every principle of the current liberal critique of Bush foreign policy.

This is not a Third-World country. You don't treat people like they're disposable.

Tourism has been a very big business in Thailand. There are very few Third World countries where things are so affordable, but so organized to make it so effortless for you to do what you want to do.

The ICC has decided under a rotation policy that every third World Cup would be held in Asia. In 2011 it's the turn of Australia to host the event but they've not yet decided on what to do. If they say no then Asia can bid for the tournament.

In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.

We are looking more and more like those Third World countries with a Grand Canyon between the haves and have-nots and a disappearing middle class.

It cannot be that the countries that have developed nuclear energy prohibit those of the third world from developing it.

While the United States remains a spectacularly rich country by any standard, we are drifting toward a Third-World-like distribution of our riches. For tens of millions of Americans, the alternative to unemployment has become a dead-end job that doesn't necessarily pay enough to cover basic living expenses.

What we're doing today is no different than what our Third World brothers and sisters have been doing for years.

The infant mortality rate is shameful, ... If you didn't know better, you'd think it's a statistic for a Third World country.