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Quotes About Aid

It doesn't make a lot of sense for us to borrow money from the Chinese to go give to another country for humanitarian aid. We ought to get the Chinese to take care of the people.
~ Leon Panetta
I will do everything, everything in my power, for as long as I am here, to enable the people of King Cove to receive proper emergency access that the rest of us take for granted.
~ Lisa Murkowski
The U.K. and the U.S. could not have been built today without Africa's aid. It is all the resources that were taken from Africa, including human, that built these countries today! So when they try to give back, we shouldn't be on the defensive.
~ Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
I already do some charity, but I don't necessarily talk about it. That doesn't mean I don't do it.
~ Dan Bilzerian
Barack Obama has talked a lot about changing the way America relates to the world, and few areas are as ripe for reform as our policies on foreign aid.
~ Iqbal Quadir
It appears then that the essence of chess is its abstract structure. Names and shapes of pieces, colors of squares, whether the "squares" are in fact square, even the physical existence of board and pieces, are all irrelevant. What is relevant is the number and geometric arrangement of the "squares", the number of types of piece and the number of pieces of each type, the quantitative-geometric power of each piece, etc. Everything else is a visual aid or a fairy tale.
~ Richard J. Trudeau
Individuals who are hard of hearing are those in whom the sense of hearing, although defective, is functional either with or without a hearing aid. For these persons, the use of a hearing aid is frequently necessary or desirable to enhance residual hearing (Owens & Farinella, 2019). The extent to which persons with hearing impairment have difficulty developing speech and language is heavily influenced by the degree of hearing loss.
~ Richard M. Gargiulo
Anyhow, it strikes me as a little archaic, like 'helpmate
~ Richard North Patterson
those who have political power can count on someone coming to their aid - the police or the military or the mob or the family, or the royal guard.
~ Richard W. Wrangham
Conscripts or not, oppressed or free, honey, the conspiracy of the living is to help one another carry on.
~ Rita Mae Brown
You give of yourself so that someone else can achieve their goal.
~ Kevin Smith
Laila knows, to those who grumble that the promised aid money to Afghanistan isn't coming, that the rebuilding is going too slowly, that there is corruption, that the Taliban are regrouping already and will come back with a vengeance, that the world will forget once again about Afghanistan.
~ Khaled Hosseini
I've been accused of trying too hard to rescue people
~ Kim Edwards
It's amazing how little you need to keep starving people strung along.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
There is no higher religion than human service.
~ Albert Schweitzer
The first principle of aid is respect.
~ Ernesto Sirolli
I was particularly talking with respect to aid, because that to me is one area that can make people so dependent, and unfortunately, that dependency starts with the government.
~ Wangari Maathai
So tell me, Tamara darlin', what other needs can I help you take care of?
~ Avery Flynn, Bang
The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
~ Yitzhak Rabin
You know that if ever the Fyrdraaca family is in true trouble, Barbizon is supposed to come to life and to our rescue, just as she did for Azucar.' 'Ayah, Poppy, I've heard the story.' 'Well, I often consider that I've sat here many times, and often felt in true trouble, and yet Barbizon has never leaped to my aid. So you know what that makes me think?' 'That it's just a story?' 'No, no. That my trouble is never true trouble. And things, though I think them bad, are not really so.
~ Ysabeau S. Wilce
Complain to one who can help you.
~ Yugoslavian Proverb
To get better faster, help someone to get better.
~ Debasish Mridha, M.D.
trenchers into a large alms basket for distribution to
~ Denise Domning
The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material things.
~ E. F. Schumacher