Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

James Anderson

The things that have really struck me are just the overwhelming support from the communities and the churches themselves, ... People have provided aid to these families even before the government's been there to help them.

Richard Gere

We've had too many World AIDS Days.

Walter Bagehot

The cardinal maxim is, that any aid to a present bad Bank is the surest mode of preventing the establishment of a future good Bank.

Ernest Hemingway

For what are we born if not to aid one another?

Donna Brazile

George W. Bush was good as his word. He visited the Gulf states 17 times; went 13 times to New Orleans. Laura Bush made 24 trips. Bush saw that $126 billion in aid was sent to the Gulf's residents, as some members of his own party in Congress balked.

Hillary Clinton

George W. Bush is very popular in Sub-Saharan Africa. Why? Because of PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief.

Janet Baker

I walked out of Rite Aid the other night and the smell almost took my breath away.

I've had this happen over the years where the student would not qualify for student aid and then something dramatic will happen in the family.

Stephen Hadley

The big opportunity to enhance prosperity in the region, of course, is the trade agenda, ... Because, as you know, through free trade and private investment the leverage you get in terms of economic growth and enhancing prosperity really dwarfs the impact of specific aid programs.

Students should first consult with their financial aid office for recommendations on student loan options and lenders. Most offer a list of lenders they recommend to their students as offering excellent rates and terms; providing excellent customer service; and extending attractive loan benefits and discounts.

The average business has not formally assessed the risks it faces, even though it has growing fears about what the future holds. In contrast, leading businesses have measured their exposure to the AIDS epidemic and put formal policies in place to protect their employees, shareholders and communities.

That is one number that has been growing and increasing. From a UNO perspective, we have had as many aid applications as ever.

Student aid is the No. 1 issue for us.

It's important because there are gopher tortoises being killed every day. This would aid in the prosecution of those killed illegally.

It's pretty obvious that the response that will be needed will be prolonged food aid relief over next few months.

Viktor Yushchenko

Construction of a new sarcophagus as part of international aid will be fully completed in 2010 if the results of an open tender to implement this project are summed up in time.

Congress missed a wonderful opportunity. What we had hoped for is that they would roll cuts into the aid programs.

Congress has shortchanged not only foreign aid but foreign policy. A mistaken notion that diplomats are unimportant and hence undeserving of support grips conservative legislators, especially.

Congress has no rational basis to attach financial aid to drug enforcement.

The notion that because people have always received aid money that they'll get money needs to end. The only way to have sustainable programs is to have programs that are wholly owned in terms of management personnel at the local level.

Bill Richardson

The North Koreans basically reversed their position on the aid issue, basically the date of expulsion is now not operational,

Steve Thomas

The officers performed first aid until paramedics arrived and took him to Tameside General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at approximately 9pm (2100 BST).

It was a tight budget year, but the administration's support for Guam is evidenced in the renegotiated Compacts of Free Association, which made the Compact mandatory rather than subject to the uncertainty of annual appropriations. The revised Compacts also increased Guam's impact aid from US$5 million annually to US$14 million annually.

It was instituted not to aid gamblers, but the reverse, so that Vegas gamblers can't infiltrate a team to get an advantage.

Bob Geldof

It says debt, trade and aid in exchange for the Africans coming to the party with good governance. If they don't come to the party, we can't help -- we'd love to, but we can't.

It's just costing more and more to get a college education. Increases in tuition and fees have been higher than inflation ... and we're not seeing financial aid from the government at all.

It seems Rite Aid made an announcement and people started speculating.

It was difficult at first to approach them, but now we are getting along very well and I have many gay friends. And in this way, we can educate them on safe sex and prevention of AIDS or venereal diseases.

It?s like keep smoking or quit smoking. Put on my seat belt, not put on my seat belt. When AIDS came around, do you change your behavior. You have to make a decision.

It's still an important tool. Obviously, they don't stand alone like they used to but there's nothing like having visual contact with a verified navigation aid like a lighthouse. There can be no mistakes.

Education is one of the wisest investments we can make in America's future. The aid elimination provision is unfair and heavy-handed and should be taken off the books completely.

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.