Famous Quotes & Sayings

It was almost a reflex reaction. If you have a good friend who can use your help, you just do it. It's all about coming to the aid of someone you care about deeply.

Charles Mackay

The smallest effort is not lost. Each wavelet on the ocean tost aids in the ebb-tide or the flow; each rain-drop makes some floweret blow; each struggle lessens human woe.

The subsidies encourage people to get insurance at work, stifling the individual non-group market, and they encourage employers to provide overly generous insurance since the cost is subsidized. What's more, the subsidy is upside down - aiding mostly the high-income families that would probably purchase insurance under any scenario, and providing little aid to those of modest means.

The bottom line is that the New York EMA received an increase of two million-plus due to an increase in AIDS cases among people of color.

The bull with a thousand horns who rose out of the sea, with the aid of him, the mighty one, do we put the folks to sleep.

The brain scan really catches AIDS red-handed, allowing us to see precisely where the damage is. For the first time, we can understand why motor skills deteriorate with AIDS, because the virus attacks the motor centers on top of the brain.

David Miliband

The big risk to British lives in 2013 is in Afghanistan. Our troops, diplomats and aid workers have made a big contribution there. But while there is an end date for Western engagement, 2014, there isn't a proper end game.

As of now, the annual financial aid to India is in the range of one to 1.5 billion dollars a year. ADB will increase this to two to 2.25 billion dollars.

We've got a huge population of people that have been evacuated with very little by way of possessions and we have to have a way to make sure these people can function. If there are those who are out there to cheat the system, that is going to be very disappointing. But the main goal is to get the aid out.

Those price drivers have all been increasing faster than college sticker prices. While tuition at a place like Princeton might be higher than the national average, its institutional aid packages are significantly higher than the national average.

This was a citizen who had gone to render aid to somebody who needed help. It cost him his life. We owe him a responsibility to go back and make it safe so it doesn't happen to someone else.

Jamie Drummond

This very bold step builds momentum toward an historic breakthrough on aid and trade at the G8 summit next month,

We find out about it through students calling and also through the financial aid community.

Russ Feingold

We give military aid to the Indonesian government, we give economic aid through international monetary organizations to Indonesia. We should be prepared to pull all of that.

Bill Richardson

We cannot have a full economic recovery, we cannot ensure the security of this country, while the states are in the midst of the worst fiscal crisis in half a century. Direct aid to cash-strapped states is perhaps the most direct way to immediately jump-start an ailing economy.

Jim McGreevey

We had a focus in terms of providing more money for public education, a slight increase to state aid to municipalities, when other states took far more Draconian measures, in terms of reducing the school week to four days, ... Actually, some states talked about letting prisoners loose.

Tom Daschle

The world should know that the members of both parties, in both houses, stand united in this: The full resources of our government will be brought to bear in aiding the search and rescue, and in hunting down those responsible and those who have aided or harbored them,

Jon Corzine

There won't be any state aid if we don't manage our budget in a way that we husband resources that we can do more than just provide property tax relief,

Robbie Williams

I've seen the way AIDS is tearing so many young lives apart, but I've also seen people fighting back -- spreading the word about prevention, looking after orphans, supporting each other.

Robert Thompson

Twenty years ago when Live AID or Farm Aid played, that was a big deal. That was something very different. Now these things seem to be the response to big very bad disastrous events.

What we are asking from the new politicians is understanding, to help aid in the development of the country.

What this latest incidence underscores is the necessity of increased support for local law enforcement to aid improving our border security. If this doesn't open D.C.'s eyes, I don't know what will.

Dambisa Moyo

We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.

We've put aside the aid that we're willing to provide the World Food Program for North Korea.

What happened last year is State made great plays and we made a lot of mental errors and helped them make great plays. We can't help them. We know they are going to make plays, we just can't aid them in the process.

What are we hoping to get out of it, what's it all in aid of -- is it really just for the sake of a gloved hand waving at you from a golden coach?

We tell the whole world, the United Nations, the Quartet, that the policy of blackmail through stopping aid will not break the will of our people.

Leila Janah

We spend billions on international aid annually, but we don't find ways to connect people to dignified work. I realized that if we don't think about ways to harness private capital to solve problems, we're leaving large amounts of money on the table and doing ourselves a disservice.

There's some definite independent strength in the Australian dollar, aided by gold and commodities.

David Johansen

There's going to be a state-wide initiative to get public works involved in mutual aid just like fire and police, but right now, we're not able to do that.

There's no financial aid for retirement; there's lots of financial aid for college, ... Paying for College Without Going Broke.

Michael Specter

I started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

Israel is the largest recipient of U.S financial aid in the world, receiving a staggering $14 million per day for the last 25 years.