Famous Quotes & Sayings

If paying $500,000 to a firm ... gets Texas $50 million in aid in one bill, that's a good return on our money.

If people could get a condom as conveniently and naturally as buying a Chinese cabbage, the AIDS prevention function carried out by condoms could finally imbue people's lives and change their bias (against condoms).

If peace doesn't prevail, there will be some fall on the aid front and that will hit the currency. We could see inflation rising and interest rates coming under pressure.

Bobby Jones

I particularly regretted winning at the nineteenth hole by the aid of a stymie which was almost impossible to negotiate.

Andrew Natsios

If you don't have those other conditions, you can put huge amounts of money into aid programs and they'll be ineffective.

Andrew Natsios

If you put too much aid too quickly into weak institutions, where there isn't capacity, you have corruption, and the programs don't work.

If you know someone is going to punch you, should you close your eyes and pretend it's not going to happen? or should you be alert, eyes wide open, ready to defend yourself? I don't know about you, but I'd rather see the punch coming than get hit when I'm not looking. Will I be in pain either way? Yes, but I'll have the band aid ready.

If you go back to 1989, her answers around AIDS were forward thinking, and she said she believed gays and lesbians deserve the same civil rights, even though she was not for overturning sodomy laws, ... Those answers were not all that out of line with people who were inclined to be fair at that time and who developed into fair-minded individuals over the years.

If Magic Johnson got a cure for AIDS / And all the broke (people) passed away. / You're telling me if my grandmother is in the NBA / right now she'd be OK, / but since she was just a secretary working for the church for 35 years, things gotta stop right here.

Mark Regev

If money to the budget of the PA is cut off, it's incumbent on all of us to make a maximum effort to beef up direct humanitarian aid to alleviate hardship.

Janet Baker

I walked out of Rite Aid the other night and the smell almost took my breath away.

I've had this happen over the years where the student would not qualify for student aid and then something dramatic will happen in the family.

It was difficult at first to approach them, but now we are getting along very well and I have many gay friends. And in this way, we can educate them on safe sex and prevention of AIDS or venereal diseases.

It was a tight budget year, but the administration's support for Guam is evidenced in the renegotiated Compacts of Free Association, which made the Compact mandatory rather than subject to the uncertainty of annual appropriations. The revised Compacts also increased Guam's impact aid from US$5 million annually to US$14 million annually.

It was instituted not to aid gamblers, but the reverse, so that Vegas gamblers can't infiltrate a team to get an advantage.

Bob Geldof

It says debt, trade and aid in exchange for the Africans coming to the party with good governance. If they don't come to the party, we can't help -- we'd love to, but we can't.

It's pretty obvious that the response that will be needed will be prolonged food aid relief over next few months.

It's not the time for blame. It's the time for helping the people on the ground that have been severely impacted by Hurricane Katrina. We'll continue to provide aid and assistance to those who have been severely impacted.

Institutional aid is not guaranteed. Students wishing to be considered for this form of aid must position themselves correctly to be recruited by private colleges.

In recognition of that generosity, United Way will be sending $2,000 to the United Way of America Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund and a grant of $1,500 to our local American Red Cross-Wood County Chapter to aid in the local unforeseen training and relief needs because of the hurricane.

Laura Bush

In my next budget, I will propose an increase of $1 billion for the federal program that aids disadvantaged schoolchildren,

In principle, it may be possible to deliver a higher amount of fiscal aid to state and local governments at a lower cost to the federal government if such aid is delivered as an outlay instead of as a tax preference.

Edmund White

In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.

Dave Heineman

I'm very, very concerned ultimately, as Medicaid costs increase in my state and most states, it's going to reduce funding for state aid to our public schools, to our higher education institution or higher taxes on the middle class that President Obama said he didn't want to do. And that's exactly where he's headed.

In total, China has financed US$15 million in aid for Fiji for this year alone.

In the reconstruction phase we will consider receiving aid from whatever quarters (gives it),

In the most basic sense, development aid is anything that is an investment in the future.

In 2005, investors began to pay attention to gradual improvement in the Japanese economy aided by some long overdue government-driven reforms.

In addition, I would like to call on all countries engaged in bilateral aid efforts to steadily implement their projects,

Alex Rodriguez

I reached the conclusion that if I played in the Classic, I would play for the United States and honor my American citizenship. I appreciate the support and understanding of my fellow Dominican players and friends who aided me in making this decision.

Beijing is becoming like a massive aid donor. It will face exactly the same problems as the World Bank faces aiding Third World countries.

John Wooden

Being selected for the McDonald's All American Games is one of the greatest accomplishments in a basketball player's career. Not only will these youth contribute to the list of the best basketball players of all-time, but they will aid in raising money for a very important cause.

Tommy Thompson

Higher fuel prices pose a real hardship for many Americans, ... This emergency aid will give states the opportunity to help more of their citizens stay warm this winter.