Quotes About Aid

The Chinese go around with lollipops in their pockets. They have aid. They have friendship deals. They build you a Prime Minister's office or President's office or Parliament House or Foreign Ministry. For them, trade is an extension of their foreign policy.

International development aid is based on the Robin Hood principle: take from the rich and give to the poor.

President Obama has made maternal health one of the core priorities of U.S. international aid funding.

Everything in Haiti right now is a priority.

I find the sort of unwitting European American outsider who wants to come to Africa to help is a very problematic construction. It's problematic because you don't want to tell people don't aid, don't help, when people feel a need to.

Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius.

Whenever I see people in difficulty, I just try to help them. In fact, I believe I have helped over 700,000 people in my life.

We should be proud that we are bringing hope around the world in times of dire need.

As human beings, what we can do is extend help in whatever way possible.

Our child benefit goes directly to the families who need it the most.

We are giving assurance to the American families that help is on its way.

I involve myself in an organisation called Tear Fund.

I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over.

The humanitarian aid system is built on a concept that when disaster strikes, outside agencies provide a temporary helping hand until people can take back control of their own lives. But across the world, we see millions of people caught in semi-permanent crises. As each year goes by, they are less and less likely to break free.

Why do we persist in giving away food when we know it fosters dependency?" "Because it's easier!

Sin embargo, la oferta de ayuda de Osama bin Laden fue rechazada; lo que tuvo fatídicas consecuencias que podríamos haber imaginado.

It is a sound interpretive rule...that anything that cannot be accomplished except with the aid of threats or the actual exercise of violence against unoffending persons cannot be beneficial to one and all.

For in that He Himself has suffered, being tempted, He is able to aid those who are tempted. – Hebrews 2:18

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raiders, the United States wanted Great Britain to foot the bill for the entire war cost after Gettysburg, some $2 billion, the logic being that after Gettysburg, the Confederacy had abandoned offensive operations, except at sea. If the British hadn't provided naval aid, the South couldn't have prolonged the war and Great Britain was therefore liable for the extra astronomical expenses incurred.

Regulation did not inevitably harm business but could also aid it.

In its thirty-year existence, the GEB dispensed $130 million, equal to more than $1 billion today.

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We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone.