Foreign Aid Quotes
36 quotes by 36 authors
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By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.
— James Buchan
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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 investment…
— Henry Hazlitt
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A nation as such does not give aid to another nation. More precisely, the common citizens of our country, through their taxes, give to the…
— Michael Parenti
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For the United States, supporting international development is more than just an expression of our compassion. It is a vital investment in the free, prosperous,…
— Condoleezza Rice
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I have said it before but it bears repeating: Aid is not a gift. The United States provides foreign assistance because it serves OUR interests.
— Howard Berman
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Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense...but when foreign aid is carefully guided and targeted at a specific issue, it can…
— Kay Granger
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Relations between the United States and other countries, and our role as a global leader, are advanced by our willingness to help other countries in…
— Patrick Leahy
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America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long.
— Robert M. Gates
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The world we live in takes a multifaceted approach. To the American taxpayer: We need to be investing in improving people's lives before the terrorists…
— Lindsey Graham
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Foreign aid is important. If it's done right, it spreads America's influence around the world in a positive way.
— Marco Rubio
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The programs supported by the International Affairs Budget are as essential to our national security as defense programs. Development and diplomacy protect our nation by…
— Tom Ridge
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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
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Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.
— Ron Paul
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A terrific, stimulating book...Ramalingam clearly and engagingly shows how the use of complex adaptive systems thinking can significantly strengthen and enhance the impacts and effectiveness…
— Jerry Sabloff
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Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the…
— Lee H. Hamilton
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In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be…
— Pauline Hanson
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It is even possible that desirable redistribution is more likely to occur through climate change policy than otherwise, or to be accomplished more effectively through…
— Cass Sunstein
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There’s no copy-and- paste system in foreign aid.
— Atifete Jahjaga
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We stand for self-reliance. We hope for foreign aid but cannot be dependent on it; we depend on our own efforts, on the creative power…
— Mao Zedong
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The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by…
— Thomas Sowell
Who Wrote These Foreign Aid Quotes
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