A Quote by Elliott Abrams

Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.

Elliott Abrams

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Elliott Abrams
American - Lawyer
Born: January 24, 1948

Los Estados Unidos has turned into a banana republic, a fascist banana republic.

Gerald Celente

In a banana republic, one might slip on a banana peel but things do work - now and then for the people, albeit inefficiently and unreliably.

George Ayittey

Witnessing Panama's overnight transition from banana republic to middle-class retirement haven is like watching the Univision version of Extreme Makeover: it feels so tacky but you can't change channels because you just have to find out what happens next.

Andrew Evans

As far as I'm concerned, when the Queen, who we all love very much, is finished with her reign then Britain should go and stop being a banana republic as it is when we have the royal family and become a real republic.

Steve Hilton

Obama might think of himself as one, but he is not a dictator. We are not a banana republic yet. This is not an authoritarian form of government. This is a constitutional republic, and the president doesn't allow or disallow. The president can't buy or purchase.

Rush Limbaugh

Despite the hundreds of non-governmental organizations and the continued outpouring of foreign aid, East Africa remains as a region overwhelmed by extreme poverty.

Jacqueline Novogratz

A banana republic we are not.

Trish Regan

We are not a banana republic.

Robert C. O'Brien

Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana.

Terry Pratchett

This is America, not a banana republic.

Vincent Bugliosi

The best herb I smoke in Jamaica and Africa. African - Rasclot! Them people cure it in a banana. In a banana skin. A green banana. They wrap it up in a banana so when you get it, it compressed and, I'll tell you, it great! Blood clot! In Nigeria and Ghana, love that herb! Good herb, mon.

Bob Marley

And I don't want my assets to be stuck inside a banana republic in the midst of a huge socialist experiment.

Porter Stansberry

There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.

Shane Claiborne

We are well on our way to becoming a banana republic in every respect except, of course, that we don't grow bananas.

Burt Prelutsky

Will we make all poverty history? No. But can we solve some of these extreme and egregious forms of poverty? I think yes, and we should.

Abhijit Banerjee

There are people in whole parts of our cities who are being totally left behind and disregarded. They are unheard. They are told they are unneeded by this economy. And that extreme poverty breeds conditions for extreme violence.

Martin O'Malley

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