Aids Quote by Wangari Maathai

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison…

— Mitt Romney

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.

— Paul Harvey

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

I believe in generous aid policies.

— Bill Gates

The first principle of aid is respect.

— Ernesto Sirolli

It is not the policy of the government in America to give aid to works of any kind. They let things take their natural…

— Thomas Jefferson

Anyone who doesn't think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn't paying attention.

— Howie Carr

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

Governments understand that help is power. That is why governments offer as much help to as many people as they can.

— Neale Donald Walsch

I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

“What we call aid money serves only to strengthen the structures that generate poverty. Aid money never reaches those victims who, having lost their…

— Majid Rahnema

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