Quotes for All
We must work to repeal trade agreements that impede access to affordable generic drugs. We must work to cause the IMF and the World Bank to reduce and eventually eliminate the debt that takes poor nations’ resources away from crises like AIDS. We must focus America’s leadership on addressing and ending this epidemic. Dennis Kucinich
The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it is likely to make them even poorer in the – not so very – long run. Dean Acheson
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. Confucius
President Obama has pledged $3 billion to aid poor nations. All of that $3 billion is going to the United States. Conan O’Brien
It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them. Bill Vaughan
the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century. Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
The invasion of Iraq will surely go down in history as one of the most cowardly wars ever fought. It was a war in which a band of rich nations, armed with enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world several times over, rounded on a poor nation, falsely accused it of having nuclear weapons, used … Read more