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Quotes About Aid

Many studies estimate that only about 10 or at most 20 percent of aid ever reaches its target. There are dozens of ongoing fraud investigations into charges of UN and local officials siphoning off aid money. But most of the waste resulting from foreign aid is not fraud, just incompetence or even worse: simply business as usual for aid organizations.
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
Head Smashed In, may I help you?
~ Dave Barry
What we want to do is keep from hindering. If it's impossible to help, it's always possible to hinder.
~ William Saroyan
Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent.
~ William Shakespeare
you do assist the storm.
~ William Shakespeare
But Governments and peoples do not always take rational decisions. Sometimes they take mad decisions, or one set of people get control who compel all others to obey and aid them in folly.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Hitler has told us that it was a crime in such circumstances on our part to go to the aid of the Greeks. I do not wish to enter into argument with experts.
~ Winston S. Churchill
love is marked by the sharing of aid, comfort, and acceptance. It involves strong positive feelings, commitment, and even sacrifice.
~ Christopher Peterson
While soldiers can stand and fight.I can fight and feed them
~ Clara Barton
You need not be a medical professional to be of service to others if the world calls for charity work.
~ Unknown
You don't need treatment. The fever, inflammation, coughing, etc., constitute the healing process. Just get out of their way and permit them to complete their work. Don't try to 'aid' nature. She doesn't need your puny aid—she only asks that you cease interfering.
~ Herbert M. Shelton
If anything, which ought not to happen, happens in your neighborhood, neighbors come as they are to help; relatives dress first.
~ Hesiod
By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made
~ Homer
Dick Van Dyke spent most of his time setting everybody else up.
~ Dave Foley
While the level of support we can each provide certainly varies, it is very important at this time that we all do what we can to help our neighbors - not only our immediate neighbors here in Alabama, but those further away in Mississippi and Louisiana.
~ Jo Bonner
Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away.
~ Muhammad Yunus
I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.
~ Carl Karcher
And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish.
~ Martha Gellhorn
C-17s should be ready to go at various military bases around the world packed with water, food, medical supplies, sleeping bags and tents, all prepared to be air dropped in alongside soldiers and doctors to begin relief efforts.
~ Steven Van Zandt
Venezuela has supported Cuba in many ways throughout its history. We have a debt of gratitude.
~ Miguel Diaz-Canel
In any democratic, civilized - even non-democratic nations, if you are a nation, it means to say that in our case, if there's a hurricane in Louisiana, the people of Vermont are there for them. If there's a tornado in the Midwest, we are there for them. If there's flooding in the East Coast, the people in California are there for us.
~ Bernie Sanders
She smiled and took her hand away. "Good," she said. "So, um, have you found anything that's, you know. Something that might help?
~ Jeff Lindsay
Working together in helping nascent democracies in the task of reconstruction, in the task of development is another area where our two countries [India and the USA] can work together.
~ Manmohan Singh
When God contemplates some great work, He begins it by the hand of some poor, weak, human creature, to whom He afterwards gives aid.
~ Martin Luther