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Quotes About Aid

This is a service station, we offer service. There is no higher purpose.
~ Nick Nolte
God will send aid to no one more readily than He will send it to a child--and to the parent of a child.
~ Jeffrey R. Holland
The White House released the military aid to Ukraine after allegations of the link to the Biden investigation became public. In other words, the Trump administration released the aid only because it was caught linking the aid to the quest for political dirt.
~ Jeffrey Toobin
Military aid to Ukraine represented a rare point of bipartisan consensus in Trump's Washington—supported by liberals who disdained Putin's reactionary authoritarianism and by conservatives who wanted to check, as in Soviet days, Russian expansionism. Trump saw the military aid in a different way—as the most compelling form of leverage to use on Zelensky.
~ Jeffrey Toobin
In other words, by early July, Zelensky knew the price for continuation of American military aid to his country: the announcement of a Ukrainian investigation of Trump's political rivals.
~ Jeffrey Toobin
one of the first to provide poor invalids with a level of care that had previously been available only to the rich. In
~ Jennet Conant
The moment a gentleman perfects an invention and petitions the government for aid, he ceases to be an innocent citizen and becomes a culprit, a man to be shirked, browbeaten, and sneered at. I have never heard of any mechanician, inventor, or natural scientist who failed to find the government all but inaccessible, and whom the government did not discourage and treat badly.
~ Jennifer Chiaverini
Giving money to individuals does little." "It does a lot," I said quietly, "for those people.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
But even God, when he intends mercy, needs tools to his hand.
~ Ellis Peters
He spoke in the deep tenderness of one about to leave his treasure amid perils and foes, where his remembered words would be the only aid he could bequeath to guide her.
~ Emily Bronte
It's much safer, in many congregations, to assure the faithful how our souls are saved through divine grace rather than to suggest that our societies are saved through personal and corporate aid to the poor.
~ Amy-Jill Levine
One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
~ Andrew Carnegie
When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
~ Samantha Power
Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you.
~ Charles Evers
We need to do everything we can to protect the health and welfare of children around the world, but fortunately, it's getting easier to provide things like medication and care.
~ Alek Wek
There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in.
~ Nicholas Kristof
When I was young we had a collection for the Welsh disaster at Aberfan and we also had a school campaign for Biafra. It is a wake-up call for kids - a way of understanding that it's not all 'Blue Peter' for everyone and that maybe they can help.
~ Lenny Henry
For years, the West supported Mubarak and gave aid for what it hoped was stability - but was actually stagnation - in the Middle East.
~ Ahmed Zewail
In tough times, the people of West Virginia have always stepped up to help a community in need.
~ Jim Justice
The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.
~ Barbara Amiel
Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world.
~ Helen Fisher
There was no pressure or blackmail from the U.S. I had no idea the military aid was held up.
~ Volodymyr Zelensky
I always felt that it was my job to try to help other people get it and deal with it.
~ Martha Beck
I'm delighted to be Number 1, but next week I don't want people to buy my record, I want them to buy Band Aid.
~ Jim Diamond