Famous Quotes & Sayings

We've put aside the aid that we're willing to provide the World Food Program for North Korea.

What happened last year is State made great plays and we made a lot of mental errors and helped them make great plays. We can't help them. We know they are going to make plays, we just can't aid them in the process.

What are we hoping to get out of it, what's it all in aid of -- is it really just for the sake of a gloved hand waving at you from a golden coach?

We tell the whole world, the United Nations, the Quartet, that the policy of blackmail through stopping aid will not break the will of our people.

Leila Janah

We spend billions on international aid annually, but we don't find ways to connect people to dignified work. I realized that if we don't think about ways to harness private capital to solve problems, we're leaving large amounts of money on the table and doing ourselves a disservice.

Mike Easley

We were prepared to face the impact of Katrina here in North Carolina, and we are now prepared to send help to those who did not escape her wrath, ... The rest of the country came to our aid after Hurricane Floyd, and we want to do all we can now for our neighbors who have lost so much.

We were playing at Farm Aid with those guys, and we were just passing the guitar back and forth backstage, and I played that song for him. He said, 'I love it. If you ever record that song, I want to cut it with you.'

We had thought that much lower corn prices and the opening of the border to Japan would aid poultry and beef, respectively. It would appear this is aggressive.

Michael Chertoff

We will work tirelessly to ensure that our fellow citizens have the sustained support and the necessary aid to reclaim their homes, their lives and their communities,

The published price bears so little relationship to the price you're going to pay. The schools that have the highest prices often have the most financial aid available.

Ben Bernanke

The public in many countries is understandably concerned by the commitment of substantial government resources to aid the financial industry when other industries receive little or no assistance. This disparate treatment, unappealing as it is, appears unavoidable.

Dorothea Brande

Act boldly and unforeseen forces will come to your aid.

The fact that Don was hit by a car while he was trying to go to the aid of another motorist is so symbolic, so Don.

Lindsey Graham

I'm the ranking Republican on the foreign aid appropriations subcommittee, so I know Tunisia well.

Gordon Brown

What we've already got is the 100 percent debt write-off for the poorest countries. It's already achieved, we've won it. We've got a doubling of aid from Europe that's to build schools and hospitals, particularly in Africa. That's already agreed. The next stage, over the next few days, is to see if we can go further.

We haven't made the case for donors to give to need-based aid quite yet or quite well enough. We need a pot of money for unrestricted need-based grants. I'm not sure where that comes from.

Alice Walker

When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they'd always known - the plantations - because they attempted to exercise their 'democratic' right to vote.

Peter Piot

We all need to begin thinking out of the box. Stopping the AIDS epidemic is going to require more than just a medical approach.

Those are some of the hardest-hit places, and they haven't gotten any aid to this point.

Those in law enforcement who would sell their badges to aid in the illegal shipment of narcotics to the United States need to know that we are aggressively investigating their activities,

Mahmoud Abbas

Unfortunately, the pressures have begun and the support and the aid started to decrease ... therefore, we are currently in a real financial crisis.

Unfortunately the aid has been suspended because North Korea has said they are not going to distribute food anymore.

Rush Limbaugh

Strategizing how to use it, how to promote it, how to use it as a campaign aid? I can't find any reference to [climate change].

Steven Moffat

As we all know, it is the proper duty of every British subject to come to the aid of the TARDIS.

Lucretius

[N]ature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death.

Roy Johnson

Magic brought AIDS out of the closet and put it on the kitchen table.

Last year we gave $105,000 in patient aid just in the Kansas City area.

So many diseases that were once virtual death sentences, including AIDS and cancer, are now often chronic diseases.

We need to be assured by the federal government that we'll get this impact aid ... We need to have assurance that even with housing, impact aid continues.

James Fenton

Rhyme is a mnemonic device, an aid to the memory. And some poems are themselves mnemonics, that is to say, the whole purpose of the poem is to enable us to remember some information.

Rich country leaders stood up and said they wanted to put children in school and save people from preventable diseases. What is the World Bank going to do to systematically embarrass donor governments that do not improve the quality of their aid in coming years?

Barbara Stocking

Rich country governments must ensure the aid promised last year is used to pay for the millions of doctors, nurses and teachers, which are so badly needed.

Perkins' book covers one angle that people don't think about. We have military weapons that we use around the world to force governments to go our way, but one thing they don't realize is that we use debt as a weapon as well. This book shows how, over the course of time, we've used international aid as a way of indebting nations.