Quotes About Aid

Often they can help to entrench poverty by encouraging people in remote communities empty of employment to do little but drink, fester and wait for the next handout from their relative abroad.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.

Saudi Arabia continued its policy of supporting jihad and spreading Wahhabism with Koran and Kalashnikov to the war's end and beyond. By the time the guns fell silent, Riyadh had lavished the Bosnian jihad with well over a billion dollars in aid, much of which went to fund the holy warriors.

You may not be able to give out all your resources/riches/fortune to the needy/helpless. But, you can give out some part of it/them just to advance the cause of the needy/helpless.

But while we thank the mathematician for his aid in conquering Nature, we envy him his powers of understanding her. Though he deals, it would seem, entirely with abstractions, they are abstractions which, at his persuasion, supply the key to the profoundest secrets of the physical universe. He holds the clues to mazes where the clearest intellect, unaided, would wander hopelessly astray.

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.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But the main reason we do foreign assistance is we do it in the American national interest.

We have to help people with their expenses of their health care, their access to their health care, and certainly for the actual care that they receive.

It's always a good feeling when you can help instead of just receiving help.

When Jeff Sachs says every poor person should receive a free bed net, I agree - but in reality, many end up not receiving one. And I don't live in a world of shoulds.

India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid.

I am currently in Haiti to help the Haitian people in their reconstruction.

Much of the aid we first gave to Russia we took away from what we promised Britain. So in a sense, Britain participated in a very real way in the recovery of Russia.

Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don't do anything serious to help reduce poverty around the world and help save the lives of children or adults who are likely to die if we don't increase the amount of aid we are giving.

For a long time, rich countries have promised to reduce poverty but have failed to match their words with adequate action. Of course, some important progress has been made and millions of lives have been saved, but millions more could be saved.

Through U.K. aid, we will help developing countries to crack down on money laundering and gather more tax - which will reduce their need for our help in the long term.

If we reduced the military expenses in 10 percent of the world, we would have enough money to save millions of lives in this world.

'Dead Aid' is about the inefficacy and the limitations of large-scale aid programs in creating economic growth and reducing poverty in Africa.

In the harrowing aftermath of Haiti's earthquake, one of the greatest needs became desperately clear: safe water.

The U.K. alone cannot be left to help those who have lost everything.

I'll do whatever it takes to go out and help others.

It's important to us to give back and to help others in every way we can.