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Quotes About Aid

Pakistan is riddled with problems that are rooted in the disproportionate power of the state. Aid has only boosted that power.
~ Iqbal Quadir
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
~ David Lloyd George
Help is even being offered from across the ocean, as over two dozen countries have stepped forward to offer financial and material support to the American people.
~ Jo Bonner
When it comes to providing aid, developing innovations, and making bold steps that change the course of history, the United States is usually on the front lines.
~ Seth Berkley
How welcome is a surgeon to a man who is bleeding from his wounds!
~ Thomas Watson
Without fanfare or ceremony, Laura Mae Corrigan began funneling all her money—an average of two thousand dollars a month—into her charity for wounded French soldiers. She would earn among those veterans the title of the "American Angel.
~ Tilar J. Mazzeo
$100 million, while a lot of money, is nowhere near what's going to be needed to respond to COVID-19.
~ Tate Reeves
I believe, as do most people, that we have an obligation to assist the truly destitute.
~ Angus Deaton
The pavilion that seems to intercept divine aid does not cover God but occasionally covers us. God is never hidden, yet sometimes we are, covered by a pavilion of motivations that draw us away from God and make Him seem distant and inaccessible.
~ Henry B. Eyring
Kennedy and Johnson had more to offer than bread alone. Initiatives such as the Peace Corps and the Alliance for Progress were intended to stimulate political as well as economic development.
~ Odd Arne Westad
We need you to help us figure out how you can help us.
~ Orson Scott Card
Not even ten additional years of slavery could have done so much to throttle the thrift of the freedmen as the mismanagement and bankruptcy of the series of savings banks chartered by the Nation for their especial aid.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
My mind to me a kingdom is. I am rightful monarch; and, God to aid, I will not be dethroned by any rebellious passion that may rear its standard against me.
~ Walter Scott
You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.
~ Charles Olson
The Muse's friend, Tea, does our fancy aid; Repress those vapors which the head invade; And keeps that palace of the soul serene....
~ Edmund Waller, "Of Tea"
Volunteers do it for free.
~ Author Unknown
The four most important words in the English language are: "How can I help?"
~ Author unknown, c. 1960s
When a house is on fire, the neighbors' duty is to put it out.
~ Habib Bourguiba
The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.
~ Harry S. Truman
treated them all as if he were their personal law enforcement concierge.
~ Lee Goldberg
How often do you provide this important service for people who aren't zillionaires, celebrities, or Hollywood power players?
~ Lee Goldberg
Merci pour tout les aides.
~ James Patterson
Although Nixon stepped up military pressure by bombing heavily and greatly expanding South Vietnamese forces, the enemy did not bend. Nor did détente with the Soviets assist the American cause: Moscow continued to send military aid to Hanoi.
~ James T. Patterson
If you're not going to move, then the least you can do is give me a hand. Don't you have workers for that? Once again, his voice belied his frustration with the dilemma he found himself in. Not all of us have an army of employees.
~ Jan Moran