#third world

In two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#coup #coups #essentially #military #opened

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators. ↗

— Joe Bob Briggs

#draft #instrument #most #often #third

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