Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salim Khan

Of course we would aid them, ... But there are soldiers here, there are rules. We can have no contact with them. We know only what we can see.

Lindsey Davies

Next week we will start looking in earnest at how to resettle people. Giving them food aid is just the start of a much bigger part of this emergency campaign.

Wanda Greenwald

This is the most prestigious award we present to recognize an individual who has come to the aid of someone who has been victimized and puts themselves at risk to help.

P. J. Harvey

There's a whole argument in the relief world about whether aid undermines the social and political contract between the state and its citizens. But if the government can't provide assistance, do you want to allow people to die?

Chris Garza

There's a lot of need in the world (but) the budget money that the president requested is in the agriculture budget and that's where we want it to stay. US AID money should come from foreign operations.

Ken Bacon

There's a wide range of aircraft load masters, ... who ... aren't just combat people, but they're people who load the C-17s and other transport planes to carry humanitarian aid or military equipment into the theater.

Chuck D.

There's digital audio broadcasting, ... which will aid radio as we currently know it by bringing a near-CD quality signal to your traditional radio.

David Carroll

There's a real disconnect in this country between what people perceive is the state of indigent defense and what it is. I attribute that to shows like Law & Order , where the defendant says, 'I want a lawyer,' and all of a sudden Legal Aid appears in the cell. That's what people think.

Peter Beck

There's a new assertiveness in terms of dealing with the foreign aid community, ... That reflects a confidence that they can better manage their food situation.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Thomas Paine

It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments...

Thomas Paine

Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.

Thomas Paine

Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is the design and end of government, viz. Freedom and security.

Thomas Paine

The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.

Timothy Geithner

There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy.

Thomas Jefferson

The federal government is our servant, not our master.

Thomas Jefferson

Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.

Thomas Jefferson

Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree.

Suzanne Isidor

We are really ready. We are ready to play with something on the line.

Akio Morita

We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

if an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect.

Anna Kendrick

I get really excited every time there's a female character who is really strong because a lot of females in film are really soft.

Angela Lansbury

I'm the bionic woman. I have a very strong constitution, and I take excruciatingly good care of myself.

Angela Merkel

I believe that we do not share as many values with Russia yet as we do with the United States. On the other hand, we have a strong interest in Russia developing in a reasonable direction.

Angela Merkel

I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on.

Amy Chua

I think there are many ways to raise great kids. From what I can tell, Ayelet Waldman's kids are interesting, strong, and happy, and if that's the case, that's good parenting.

Alva Myrdal

The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.

Anne Sexton

You lay, a small knuckle on my white bed; lay, that fist like a snail, small and strong at my breast. Your lips are animals; you are fed with love. At first, hunger is not wrong.