Foreign aid breeds kleptocracies, or governments of thieves.

A nation as such does not give aid to another nation. More precisely, the common citizens of our country, through their taxes, give to…

— Michael Parenti

Health care's a great example. We spend billions of dollars a year in foreign aid helping people in countries where the money never gets…

— Toby Keith

None of what we [as country] have done is credited. None of the good works. Our foreign affairs budget, foreign aid budget, none of…

— Rush Limbaugh

It is even possible that desirable redistribution is more likely to occur through climate change policy than otherwise, or to be accomplished more effectively…

— Cass Sunstein

America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long.

— Robert M. Gates

Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure. Voluntary private…

— Henry Hazlitt

Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense.

— Kay Granger

Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country

— Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

There is a profound contrast between the effects of foreign aid and of voluntary private investment: foreign aid goes from government to government. It…

— Henry Hazlitt

Aid makes itself superfluous if it is working well. Good aid takes care to provide functioning structures and good training that enables the recipient…

— Paul Kagame

Sufficient for the day is all that we can enjoy. We cannot eat or drink or wear more than the day's supply of food…

— Charles Spurgeon

Government aid programs have been endlessly expanded, and the government has sought to maximize the number of people willing to accept handouts… Roughly half…

— James Bovard

“...this money goes to a war machine, a war machine that attacks its own citizens and those of other countries to force them into…

— J.C. Allen

Technology is the perfect refuge for African capability stifled elsewhere by badly run governments and years of misplaced foreign aid. Ubiquitous connectivity in a…

— Ory Okolloh

Taiwan gives a lot of foreign aid to Costa Rica, so it looks like they are basically buying the right to fish, even though…

— Paul Watson