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This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor. — John F. Kennedy

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

It turns out Cuba has this incredible healthcare system for a very poor country. — Michael Moore

Oppression makes a poor country. — William Penn

America is such a great country, we have fat poor people. — Carlos Mencia

No b****** ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb b****** die for his country. — George S. Patton Jr.

The measure of a country's prosperity should not be how many poor people drive cars, but how many affluent people use public transportation. — Michael Hogan

When the British left, India was a multireligious, multiregional, multiethnic country, exploited, backward, and poor from colonialism. — Prem Kishore

I'm very moved to be here today, ... Our lives are now much better, but Vietnam remains a very poor country. We need to work much harder. — Ho Chi Minh

You do not win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making sure that some poor bastard dies for his. — Mal Peet

Globalism has less leeway for a poor country's brilliant sons. — Molly Crabapple

The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse. — Lester R. Brown

The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. — G.K. Chesterton

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

Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't. — Hillary Clinton

Every Christian in America has some minimal responsibility to get involved in helping the poor brethren in the church in other countries. — K.P. Yohannan

He said, McKinley was going around the country shouting prosperity when there was no prosperity for the poor man. — Barbara W. Tuchman

There always seem to be very rich people, no matter how poor the country, Thenoclon said. — Andrew Ashling

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

There is no country on earth that has done more for our own poor and for the poor around the world. We are not the ones that need to be targeted. — Rush Limbaugh

A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor ... Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom. — Wendy Beckett

I salute the poor of our country who have deposited more than Rs 20,000 crore in Jan Dhan Bank Accounts. — Narendra Modi

But perhaps no distance is greater than that which separates a poor family in the same country — Halldor Laxness

But for the poor of a country where corruption thieved a great deal of opportunity, corruption was one of the genuine opportunities that remained. As — Katherine Boo

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country. — Edward Abbey

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded. — King Solomon

America is the first country where people go to the poor house in their car. — Will Rogers

We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Drugs and drinking affect every family I know, country and city, middle-class and poor. — Bonnie Jo Campbell

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

What's the best way to make sure that the poor have a share in a country's growing wealth: Regulation? Taxes? Philanthropy? — Linsey McGoey

Aid is the process by which the poor in rich countries subsidize the rich in poor countries. — Peter Thomas Bauer

A friend from India told me that a countryman of his said: "I want to go to America. I want to see a country where poor people are fat." — Thomas Sowell

The country with a low birth rate and low death rate will be hardest hit - and so the poor may indeed inherit the earth, because they're healthier. — William S. Burroughs

Who dare to love their country, and be poor. — Alexander Pope

It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola. — Clare Short

Bleed, bleed, poor country!Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure;For goodness dares not check thee!His title is affear'd.Shakesp.Macbeth. — Samuel Johnson

Most often a country is poor when its educational system is poor and individuals do not strive to become educated. — Debasish Mridha

I really want to move to a country where the poor people are fat. — Dinesh D'Souza

Neurotics make poor patriots; if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small as your country. — Mignon McLaughlin

In every single poor country that I visited, I saw poor values and resentful attitudes. But in the rich, I saw delusional arrogance. — Robin Sacredfire

The object isn't to die for your country, it's to make the other poor slob die for his. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty. — William J. Clinton

Judy Collins sings about in "The Blizzard," or read Alice Walker's essay "My Father's Country Is the Poor." Each — Gloria Steinem

Get to know the poor in your country. Love them. Serve them. — Mother Teresa

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? — Alexandra Paul

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

Besides, he grew up in the city of the poor. You know as well as I do that in this country Marxism is a religious passion of the middle class. — Mark Helprin

The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people. — Unita Blackwell

Alas, poor country, almost afraid to know itself! It cannot be called our mother, but our grave. — William Shakespeare

Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army — Joseph Stalin

Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition. — A.A. Gill

Far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die. — Isabel Allende

If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable. — Zong Qinghou

The rate of profit ... is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin. — Adam Smith

People who live in pale cities tragically understand how so much poor they are when they come across with the dazzling colors of the country fields! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

So here is the Great Society. It's the time - and it's going to be soon - when nobody in this country is poor. — Lyndon B. Johnson

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country. — Paul Farmer

For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival. — Mo Yan

People who look down on us poor country folk usually won't admit that anything worthwhile can come out of here. — Michael Thomas Ford

Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country, the only consolation people can have is the one that comes from their beliefs. — Orhan Pamuk

Bengal is poor not because of lack of capital but lack of ideas and vision. — Debasish Mridha

Countries are poor not because their people are lazy; their people are 'lazy' because they are poor. — Ha-Joon Chang

Mexico has lost its leadership, and a lot of that has to do with its poor performance and the lack of better results in our country. — Enrique Pena Nieto

Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor in spirit. — Richard M. Nixon

Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision. — Gunnar Myrdal

If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying that you want a country based on Christian values. Because you don't! — Jimmy Carter

When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to buy original records. Everything was bootlegged. — Ha-Joon Chang

Any country that accepts abortion is the poorest of the poor — Mother Teresa

Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. — Rand Paul

Growth is improving the lot of the poor in many countries, reducing poverty by half since 1981. Freer trade could accelerate progress. — Francois Bourguignon

At the moment, we don't deserve international cricket in our country. The security situation is poor here. — Rashid Latif

It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country. — Imran Khan

No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country. — Liya Kebede

Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy. — Louis Farrakhan