Quotes About Aid

6. You want to help him.

Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.

It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.

Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid.

Bono was short for Bono Vox of O'Connell Street, but the boy Guggi was no Latin scholar. "Strong Voice" was an accidental translation. Bonavox was a hearing aid shop in Dublin.

Kada smo u kontaktu sa drugim ?ovekom, mi mu ili pomažemo ili smetamo. Nema tre?eg: ili ga vu?emo na dole, ili ga izvla?imo na površinu.

One had been stung by an insect, Jason got the medikit to him in time, but he was so sick he had to turn back.

It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more.

Legal aid is central to righting wrongs and rectifying injustice.

Malaria is a disease that kills one to three million people a year. 300 to 500 million cases are reported. It's estimated that Africa loses about 13 billion dollars a year to the disease. Five dollars can save a life. We can send people to the moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get five-dollar nets to 500 million people?

The U.K. should see overseas aid as an investment in the future potential of a market and shouldn't be used as a stick to bash trading partners and strategic allies with.

I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.

No nation helps more people around the globe. Our deep generosity is given so freely that it is simply expected, by others and by ourselves. From Ethiopia to Haiti to Japan where there is tragedy, famine or disaster, we lead the way with private and public help.

The peaceful transfer of power is a central tenet of American democracy, and Connecticut stands ready to aid in the protection of our country.

U.K. aid is responding to our changing world and tackling the great challenges of our time. It is transforming lives in the poorest countries and making the world healthier, safer and more prosperous for everyone.

It is true that the U.S. could and should have been more generous as Russia made its painful transition to a market economy in the 1990s.

We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law.

My top priority will be to secure maximum value for money in aid through greater transparency, rigorous independent evaluation and an unremitting focus on results.

It is so basic as to be mundane, but in disaster relief, all the good will in the world can go to hell in a hand basket if the logistics don't work. In Ethiopia at the best of times, the logistics are difficult. It is a huge country - about the same size as Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma combined. It is also a transportation nightmare.

In addition to serving overseas, the Peace Corps' Crisis Corps Volunteers have helped their fellow Americans.

Who prays at help in the Illusion of his Life does not understand that his only aid is death

Three helping one another will do as much as six men singly

So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.