Quotes About Aid

We got to protect Medicaid.

But the main thing is that medication, too, is not all the help.

I definitely want to help the youth, people who can't afford medicine.

As one of the biggest international donors in the fight against malaria, the U.K. is already playing its part in responding to this challenge.

When countries are in crisis Britain leads the international response.

The Russians often took advantage of Lend-Lease.

It gives me satisfaction to help people.

Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives.

If you are saving lives, I am willing to help.

I would like to help my people in any way I can. It's difficult times in Pakistan and we all have to help.

I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don't know what those numbers will be, and I don't know how it's going to be framed.

For my part, I try to do my bit to make people's lives more bearable, in particular children across the globe who are having problems.

Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.

The work that Partners in Health do in Haiti benefits the whole world.

I think the facts reveal that the European partners have taken extraordinary measures to help Greece address its problems.

How many hundreds of times have I heard that argument, expressed by high-earning intellectuals, local and foreign: 'helping the poor is dangerous for they will become (or are already) dependent on aid'? Aid dependence, it seems, acts as an explanation for every negative social phenomenon. The rural road not maintained; the anti-erosion measure not adopted; the expression of hunger in a conversation – all due to aid dependence. Nonsense, and condescending nonsense at that.

The Chinese have told UNITA that Peking would continue its aid," the CIA reported, "but was concerned about how it would reach UNITA if Zaire was no longer able to act as a transit area." South Africa offered to help. Beijing held its nose, and with Pretoria's assent in 1979 it delivered "550 to 600 tons of weapons" to Savimbi through Namibia.18

George W. Bush was good as his word. He visited the Gulf states 17 times; went 13 times to New Orleans. Laura Bush made 24 trips. Bush saw that $126 billion in aid was sent to the Gulf's residents, as some members of his own party in Congress balked.

I am keen on visiting the flood-hit areas in Kerala.

'Music for Relief' has played a vital role in helping get aid to people who most need it. We are deeply honored to participate in what will likely be our biggest event to date.

At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it for their own reward and then lock the rest up in volatile, insecure and illiquid loans that at times they cannot redeem without public aid.

We are in a time when the Peace Corps mission is more vital than ever, and the organization is at a 30-year high in the number of volunteers in the field. The Peace Corps is currently in 69 posts and serving 75 countries across the globe.

In addition to serving overseas, the Peace Corps' Crisis Corps Volunteers have helped their fellow Americans.

I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.