I don't consider the first-world concerns any less important than the third-world ones.
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I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World.
We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions.
I guess I strongly feel that we cannot pretend that the Third World is not part of our world. We cannot say 'OK, there's that problem over there, let's just close our eyes' - we cannot do that.
I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb.
Things don't have to change the world to be important.
Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
We are a vibrant first-world country, but we have a humbling third-world memory.
After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.
Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
There isn't a more important issue in the world than global warming. Even the Cold War and the Bay of Pigs crisis were a notional threat.
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