Aids Quote by James Bovard Download Open image “Foreign aid breeds kleptocracies, or governments of thieves.” — James Bovard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aids Foreign aid Government Politics Thieves
Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries — Douglas Casey Copy Share Image
Foreign aid, especially when there is a lot of it, affects how institutions function and how they change. — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“Corruption is usually classified as a humanitarian aid problem, to be handled by donor agencies, not mainstreamed into overall foreign and defense policy. And… — Sarah Chayes Copy Share Image
“The rest of the world sees through the sham, when we pour billions in “foreign aid,” which is really military assistance, into underdeveloped countries… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
People are studying whether there's a cause of action that competitors, for example, would have if they're harmed by these foreign government payments. — Norman L. Eisen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The kings of Siam are said to have ruined obnoxious countries by presenting them with white elephants that had to be maintained at vast expense. Receiving aid is not just like receiving an elephant but like making love to an elephant; there is no pleasure in it, you run the risk of being crushed and it takes years before you… — Anonymous Copy Share
Foreign trade is not a replacement for foreign aid, of course, but foreign aid to a country that doesn't also engage in significant amounts… — Brian Behlendorf Copy Share Image
Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good,… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Its contempt for citizens ... is so routine, and so unlimited, that the agency has become a kind of Frankenstein, running wild and terrorizing Americans at will. The IRS hypocritically requires mistake-free returns when its own books are in shambles. It demands exorbitant sums of money without regard to the accuracy of its claims. It doesn't hesitate to use every… — James Bovard Copy Share
The key question for many voters is: How much is the candidate offering for my vote? — James Bovard Copy Share Image
The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people. — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Once freedom is equated with a certain material standard of living, confiscation becomes the path to liberation. — James Bovard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The more freedoms Americans lose, the more dangerous government becomes. — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's herpes, it's… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I'm part of a team that raises millions of dollars and raises awareness of HIV and AIDS all over the world. — Linda Evangelista Copy Share Image
If you take all the food aid, America is by far the most generous country. If you take the direct aid, we're very generous. But when you add on our private contributions - see, our tax system encourages private citizens to donate to organisations that, for example, help the folks in Africa. And when you take the combined effort of… — George W. Bush Copy Share
My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls thy hand, and without His behest, thou canst not strike a stroke. My God is sinless, eternal, all-wise, and in Him is my trust, and though stripped and crushed by thee, -though naked, desolate, void of… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share
Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Women's Aid is a fantastic charity which has my full support. I am proud to call myself a Real Man, a man who will… — Neil Fox Copy Share Image
It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies and to intervene on behalf of the most desperate. The AIDS orphans in Uganda, the refugee fleeing Zimbabwe, the young woman who has been trafficked into the sex trade in Southeast Asia. It has been hard, yet this assistance together with the compassionate work of private charities, people… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share
At the time when this famous historical battle was fought in Kosovo, the people were looking at the stars, expecting aid from them. Now,… — Slobodan Milosević Copy Share Image
