A Quote by Mary McAleese

We are a vibrant first-world country, but we have a humbling third-world memory.

Mary McAleese

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Mary McAleese
Irish - Statesman
Born: June 27, 1951

My parents leaving a third world country to a first world country and building from nothing - that's really inspiring to me and it's influenced me in a positive way.

Melanie Fiona

We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions.

Pauline Hanson

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

Look at what has happened to Miami. It has become a Third World country. You just pick it up and take it and move it someplace. You would never know you're in the United States of America. You would certainly say you're in a Third World country.

Tom Tancredo

I don't mind America becoming a Third World country. The weather is better in the Third World than it is where I live in New Hampshire. And household help will be much cheaper.

P. J. O'Rourke

The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country - a border culture.

Gloria E. Anzaldúa

We will rebuild our country with American workers, American iron, American aluminum, American steel. We will create millions of new jobs and make millions of American dreams come true. Our infrastructure will again be the best in the world. We used to have the greatest infrastructure anywhere in the world, and today, we are like a third-world country. We are literally like a third-world country. Our infrastructure will again be the best, and we will restore the pride in our communities, our nation.

Donald Trump

There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in.

Gerald Durrell

Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then people of color are the majority in this world. We should be the 'first world.'

H. Rap Brown

Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world

Arundhati Roy

I understand we're on our way to being a Third World country. Could we just stop at 'Second World' before we get there?

Bill Maher

Every country has rich people. But only a few places have achieved a vibrant and stable middle class. And in the history of the world, none has been more vibrant and more stable than the American middle class.

Marco Rubio

Being the mayor of the third largest city in the country, that's humbling, but it also gives me incredible hope.

Lori Lightfoot

Paris Hilton is going on a goodwill mission to Rwanda. It’s the first time an entire Third World country will have to get immunizations for a visitor.

Chelsea Handler

We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well. We have our own Third World here. And we have to first become aware of that and how to help and solve that.

Martin Sheen

I don't consider the first-world concerns any less important than the third-world ones.

Susan Minot

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