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Quotes About Aid

Not federal government's job to do good deeds.
~ Jim DeMint
People can be good, people can be generous, people can be helpful. People can help those who are in need when they need it.
~ Kevin Sorbo
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.
~ Robert Kennedy
Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.
~ James Madison
Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.
~ Jack Kemp
The Original Sin which brought us to the brink of bankruptcy and dictatorship was the Federal Income Tax Amendment and its illegitimate child, Federal Aid.
~ Tom Anderson
If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
~ James Madison
The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid.
~ Will Rogers
Government should exist in order to help fortify the country and make those who are in need better able to meet their own.
~ Maya Soetoro-Ng
Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.
~ Paul Harvey
Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.
~ Bill Gates
Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.
~ Lee H. Hamilton
Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.
~ James Cook
I have big hope for the Canadian government to help Somalia with something concrete and tangible. I haven't seen that.
~ Hawa Abdi
Foreign aid breeds kleptocracies, or governments of thieves.
~ James Bovard
To increase aid to the Pakistan government when religious freedom is not upheld is tantamount to an anti-Christian foreign policy.
~ Keith O'Brien
I am happy that I can aid those admirable men, both living and dead, who by their pens or their tongues have aided the great cause of human liberty and universal happiness.
~ James Watson
We've got to provide additional help to small businesses so that they can afford to provide health insurance.
~ Hillary Clinton
I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
~ Jet Li
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
~ A. C. Benson
You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
It was helpful to be able to call a lawyer...it turns out, that not only did they help me, but they really helped the whole community.
~ David Allen
You measure a government by how few people need help.
~ Patricia Schroeder