Quotes About Aid

Personally I support 14,000 kids in Zambia - I feed and clothe them - but I don't hold press conferences about it. I don't do it so you'll think what a nice person I am; it's private.

Everyone needs more support than they are getting.

My father was interested in justice, always working for people who needed to be supported.

The most obvious criticism of aid is its links to rampant corruption. Aid flows destined to help the average African end up supporting bloated bureaucracies in the form of the poor-country governments and donor-funded non-governmental organizations.

Supporting actors are the support. You can't make a building without support. You can't buy dinner without support.

I believe that we shouldn't be supporting any form of aid towards countries that are killing people that are innocent.

Surely no nation in the history of the world had ever done so much to help civilians in other nations as America did under Hoover's guidance.

Nature is like a wild animal that you have trained to work for you. So long as you are vigilant and walk warily with thought and care, so long will it give you its aid; but look away for an instant, be heedless or forgetful, and it has you by the throat.

You said five little words to someone--How can I help you?--and it was as if you'd mortgaged your soul out to them.

If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.

Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.

The man whom heaven helps has friends enough.

When he can render no further aid, the physician alone can mourn as a man with his incurable patient. This is the physician's sad lot.

My business is staunching blood, and feeding fainting men.

Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.

Donors need to know what their money is being used for.

As long as countries wave chequebooks over our heads, we can never be equal.

We spend billions on banks when we know that a fraction of this money could save all the children in the world.

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

Why does the UN need to raise money for ebola? Can't the gov just print the damn dollars themselves and get this done already.

Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world's poorest people is the smartest way that our government spends money.

Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

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.