#third world

Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance. ↗

— John McCarthy

#advance #blame #countries #course #failure

It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts. ↗

— Roger Moore

#easy #luxury #peace #pontificate #relative

Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World country, and I said, 'I'm going to just squat behind a tree.' I basically did that but in a chair in my living room. I didn't want a sterile hospital room. I didn't want doctors. I had a midwife. ↗

— Carolyn Murphy

#amazing thing #basically #been #behind #birth

I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool. ↗

— Joan Rivers

#celebrity #child #country #fool #i

Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America. ↗

— Al Roker

#any #could #country #down #new

We're a superpower with a Third World grid. ↗

— Bill Richardson

#superpower #third #third world #world

My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#drinking #drinking water #ensure #first #sanitation

So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#global #global warming #helping #mainly #overcome

The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#economy #joke #looking #might #model

And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#focus #focused #horribly #impossible #lot