Gore Vidal, the American writer, once described the American economic system as 'free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich'. Macroecono….

A developed country isn’t a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation..

I am moved by the spirit of Angolans and the work UNICEF is doing, but I am saddened by the hardships I have seen, and the fact that a little flexing….

Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries..

The rich countries are rich because of their practices at home, and because of their readiness to adopt and adapt new things, such as Chinese inventi….

If the level and amount of consumption and waste of the western rich countries ever reaches the poor countries, it will mean the end of humanity. The….

We [US] are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per person but in absolute. T….

There is a considerable polarization taking place here, increasing the gap between rich and poor. It's most dramatic in Third World countries, of cou….

Listen to me: Life is not about principles; it`s about happiness.` `But if you don`t have any principles, and if you don`t have faith, you can`t be h….

In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only p….

Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem, for two reasons. One is the habits of the West in terms of consumption. The other is t….

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

The world is very disparate, in terms of the US using the most energy per person, and then the other rich countries - Europe, Japan, New Zealand - us….

But you see, a rich country like America can perhaps afford to be stupid..

Most people acquire most of their knowledge outside school, and in school only insofar as school, in a few rich countries, has become their place of ….

Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free..

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things..

Look at the ozone story. As long as it was the southern hemisphere that was being threatened, there was very little talk about it. When it was discov….

The United States is unique among the rich countries, developed countries, in not having some kind of a national health-care system..