Quotes About Aid

Poverty needs no plan. It needs no one to aid it, because it is bold and ruthless. Riches are shy and timid. They have to be "attracted.

He would have said Stephen was a sort of human tire iron;

I want to live in a country where we believe in helping each other, where we see where resources are lacking.

Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help.

It's clear that the United States has more to give the world than military bases.

After the sale of Celtel, I really wanted to give the money back, and I had a number of choices - to go and buy masses of blankets and baby milk or to go into Darfur or Congo. That would have been very nice actually, but it's just like an aspirin: it doesn't deal with the problem.

Several million people inside and outside Afghanistan are destitute and desperately in need of help.

When I learned how millions of children go to bed hungry, my only response was, 'What can I do to help?'

Of the $16.5 billion the federal government transfers to states for TANF, more than $11 billion is siphoned off for other uses, sometimes to fund a state's child welfare system. Strained state budgets are thus eased. TANF has become welfare for the states rather than aid for families

anything we can do to help

You get to help people in ways that I can't even imagine. Hell, *you get to help people.*

We're here now, we have the means to stop the suffering and therefore the duty to act.

Welcome to Haiti, Doctor. We need people like you here.' If you need people like me, it's because of people like you.

Every year, we ask our donors to dig deeper. And every year, they gladly, generously comply. It is now up to us to find ways and means to forestall the day when they cannot - or will not. Or the consequences for people in war zones could be disastrous.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. ... Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbour.

Everyone needs help from everyone.

In this world we must help one another.

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Knowing sorrow well, I learn to succor the distressed.

A little help is worth a great deal of pity.

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.