Famous Quotes & Sayings

Villages are on the brink of widespread starvation, ... There is no maize, wild foods are exhausted, and there's very little food aid on the way for the next six months unless the international community steps in now with cash to stave off a humanitarian catastrophe.

Washington will pump massive amounts of aid into the Katrina-affected areas boosting economic activities.

We are anxiously awaiting more aid because it's much needed.

We had planned to announce our request for release from mediation last week, along with the result of our strike vote. However, given the unprecedented tragedy along the U.S. Gulf Coast, we decided to hold off on that request. The IPA is supporting the Katrina relief effort by maintaining a database of our members who are willing to fly aid missions into Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana without pay. Currently, more than 500 IPA crewmembers have stepped up and volunteered to man these flights.

We had our tactical medics render aid to him immediately, and that is when we got him out of the house and evacuated to the hospital.

We find out about it through students calling and also through the financial aid community.

Russ Feingold

We give military aid to the Indonesian government, we give economic aid through international monetary organizations to Indonesia. We should be prepared to pull all of that.

Bill Richardson

We cannot have a full economic recovery, we cannot ensure the security of this country, while the states are in the midst of the worst fiscal crisis in half a century. Direct aid to cash-strapped states is perhaps the most direct way to immediately jump-start an ailing economy.

Jim McGreevey

We had a focus in terms of providing more money for public education, a slight increase to state aid to municipalities, when other states took far more Draconian measures, in terms of reducing the school week to four days, ... Actually, some states talked about letting prisoners loose.

Robert Thompson

Twenty years ago when Live AID or Farm Aid played, that was a big deal. That was something very different. Now these things seem to be the response to big very bad disastrous events.

Women appear to be progressing to AIDS at the same rate as men do, ... But it is at half the viral load the men have.

Two big surprises came out of this study. First, that AIDS is selective in how it attacks the brain. Second, drug therapy does not appear to slow the damage. The brain provides a sanctuary for HIV where most drugs cannot follow.

We've got a huge population of people that have been evacuated with very little by way of possessions and we have to have a way to make sure these people can function. If there are those who are out there to cheat the system, that is going to be very disappointing. But the main goal is to get the aid out.

Those price drivers have all been increasing faster than college sticker prices. While tuition at a place like Princeton might be higher than the national average, its institutional aid packages are significantly higher than the national average.

This was a citizen who had gone to render aid to somebody who needed help. It cost him his life. We owe him a responsibility to go back and make it safe so it doesn't happen to someone else.

Jamie Drummond

This very bold step builds momentum toward an historic breakthrough on aid and trade at the G8 summit next month,

When I speak to groups of parents of young kids, they mostly want to develop strategies for qualifying for financial aid and the unfortunate part is if they haven't saved anything, they may discover that aid will mostly be in the form of loans.

Bill Bixby

We got some financial aid the first year, but not what we were qualified for.

We're going through this in real time, ... We're using existing mutual aid agreements.

Kenneth Bacon

We're very concerned about help they've (Iran) been getting on a variety of programs, some from Russia, and some, we believe, from China as well. And we've voiced our concern both to the governments of Russia and China about this. And we will continue to voice our concern about efforts that aid the proliferation of missiles.

Via the Production Decision Aid site, producers can link to the best farm management information available including recent government and university reports and marketing specialist analysis.

Mike Rogers

I can only hope the federal aid made available today will be sufficient in our recovery efforts, and pray that our citizens continue to be safe from the fallout of this dangerous natural disaster.

Paul Watson

Taiwan gives a lot of foreign aid to Costa Rica, so it looks like they are basically buying the right to fish, even though it's not legal.

Frank Pallone

Every year the Bush administration provides less aid to Armenia than the Congress envisages.

Jim Jones

The results have been very modest. The U.S. wants to show that aid is reducing illicit crops, not that it's reducing poverty. It's perverse logic.

There's a direct connection between schools and tourism. Tourism generates sales tax and a large part of sales tax goes to the school aid fund.

David Johansen

There's going to be a state-wide initiative to get public works involved in mutual aid just like fire and police, but right now, we're not able to do that.

There's no financial aid for retirement; there's lots of financial aid for college, ... Paying for College Without Going Broke.

Michael Specter

I started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

Israel is the largest recipient of U.S financial aid in the world, receiving a staggering $14 million per day for the last 25 years.

What we are asking from the new politicians is understanding, to help aid in the development of the country.

What this latest incidence underscores is the necessity of increased support for local law enforcement to aid improving our border security. If this doesn't open D.C.'s eyes, I don't know what will.

Dambisa Moyo

We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.