Quotes About Aid

By picking a few winners, the Race to the Top competition abandoned the traditional idea of equality of educational opportunity, where federal aid favored districts and schools that enrolled students with the highest needs.

If a few people escape from a burning building before the firemen arrive, does that discourage the firemen from rescuing others who are still trapped?

Whether acting to save some or all, rescuers rescue!

Remember, O most chaste spouse of the Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thy intercession was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto you, my spiritual father, and beg your protection. O foster father of the Redeemer, despise not my petitions, but in your goodness hear and answer me. Amen.

The purpose of our life is to help others through it.

All the other pleasures of life seem to wear out, but the pleasure of helping others in distress never does.

I feel that the most rewarding thing I have ever done in my life is to be associated with UNICEF.

We all have a responsibility in life to do what we can to help those less fortunate.

Legal aid is fundamentally important in a democratic, civilised society.

To will and to run are mine, but they will cease to be mine unless God brings me His continual aid.

Harbord and his mission arrived in Sivas on 20 September. They were told by Mustafa Kemal that Turkey realized that it needed the aid of an impartial foreign country. 'After all our experience we are sure that America is the only country able to help us,' Mustafa Kemal acknowledged in a statement on 15 October.

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Davidson was in the bows with the master's night-glass, a short telescope with lenses of a broader than normal diameter to collect all of the available light. In some circumstances the night-glass could be a useful aid.

You could give us a hand instead of staring into space like a constipated camel.

If poverty is not a result of lack of resources or opportunities, but of poor institutions, poor government, and toxic politics, giving money to poor countries—particularly giving money to the governments of poor countries—is likely to perpetuate and prolong poverty, not eliminate it. The

Fiction, the time-honoured resource of the ill-at-ease, would have to come to her aid

We, being the Western world, wouldn't let Russia off the hook on debt. So there were demands on debt servicing in the early days until they ran out of reserves. There was no real aid program, just a fictional aid program.

If I can't score, I do whatever I can to support my teammates.

When you have an emergency, there is the urge to do whatever it takes to see people get assistance.

We have to create jobs but also make sure that those who are looking for work aren't just left without any assistance whatsoever.

Whenever there is an international crisis - an earthquake, a flood, a war - Americans provide more assistance than the people of any other nation.

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.

In 2000, just before leaving the White House, Clinton ratcheted up military aid to Colombia. Plan Colombia, as the assistance program was called, provided billions of dollars to what was, and remains, the most repressive government in the hemisphere.

If poverty and underdevelopment are primarily consequences of poor institutions, then by weakening those institutions or stunting their development, large aid flows do exactly the opposite of what they are intended to do.