About Quote by Samantha Power

“Perhaps many aid organizations make assumptions about the problem they are solving, and throw hundreds of billions of dollars at the problem to little…

— Nat Greene

Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives…

— Lee H. Hamilton

The humanitarian aid system is built on a concept that when disaster strikes, outside agencies provide a temporary helping hand until people can take…

— Antonio Guterres

Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.

— Pierre Salinger

Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

— Bill Gates

“The genocide had exposed the dangers of a country overly reliant on aid, illuminated the perils of government power concentrated in too few hands…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.

— Karl Marx

When we look at economic crises, it is more often policy makers do too little than too much.

— Brian Deese

Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Crises have a way of thrusting into the limelight hitherto obscure persons, and giving them, for a long or short period, a leading role.

— Susan Ertz

Particularly in periods of crisis, governments have the obligation to lead by good example! Instead, many in Europe are confronting this global challenge with…

— Martin Schulz

Politically speaking, it's always easier to shell out money for a disaster that has already happened, with clearly identifiable victims, than to invest money…

— James Surowiecki