Famous Quotes & Sayings

The fact that people are dying should be catalyst enough to scale up relief efforts and put pressure on aid agencies.

There are a lot of child-run families, due to the impact of AIDS or land mines or other health issues. There's a need to train children and young teenagers how to maintain a family and a home.

There are a lot of African-Americans in that region of the country. We pay particular attention to these communities because historically aid doesn't get into those communities right away.

Many critics of the Palestinians, especially those in Congress, think the current calm is merely the eye of the storm. That's why the House of Representatives approved a foreign aid package last week that forbade the direct financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority .

We need to be assured by the federal government that we'll get this impact aid ... We need to have assurance that even with housing, impact aid continues.

Last year we gave $105,000 in patient aid just in the Kansas City area.

So many diseases that were once virtual death sentences, including AIDS and cancer, are now often chronic diseases.

Laura Bush

She's interested in the policy surrounding AIDS and what we can do in our country and in other countries around the world to really stop AIDS.

The outpouring of money and aid has not been as full. The graphic nature of the tsunami seemed to really capture people's attention.

John C. Calhoun

War, in our country, ought never to be resorted to but when it is clearly justifiable and necessary; so much so as not to require the aid of logic to convince our understanding nor the ardour of eloquence to inflame our passions. There are many reasons why this country should never resort to it but for causes the most urgent and necessary.

Catherine Asaro

The most valuable aid I have found in teaching is to remember my own experiences as a student.

What we have to do with tuition is to make sure it invests resources (and) delivers results. That we actually have a framework, together with student aid that will improve access, not take away from it.

We are deeply saddened by what has happened in New Orleans and the surrounding areas. We sincerely hope that the funds we collect will do a little bit to aid the many victims of Katrina.

Nathan Wolfe

Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the first instance, from animals, especially wild animals. And we increasingly know which parts of the world pose the greatest risk for future incursions.

Yusuf Hamied

I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help them was shattering for me.

Yusuf Hamied

Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.'

Bernie Siegel

I have always made a distinction between healing and curing. To me, 'healed' represents a condition of one's life; 'cured' relates strictly to one's physical condition. In other words, there may be healed quadriplegics and AIDS patients, and cured cancer patients who are leading unhealthy lives.

We're keeping up the pressure on the Bank, Fund and rich country donors. The story of 2005 was promises from rich countries to increase their aid. The story of 2006 is whether these promises will result in real money to fight poverty and not aid increases based on clever accounting, politics and naked self interest.

We still have time to prevent the pathology from becoming an epidemic if Turkish veterinary services receive the necessary aid from international organizations.

Kofi Annan

The promptness with which the government of Turkey has mobilized initial humanitarian aid has helped to mitigate the initial level of suffering,

To use Apache helicopters to fire missiles at civilian quarters, that's a violation of international law. To destroy homes over its inhabitants, that's a violation of international law. Not to allow humanitarian aid for 14 days to arrive to wounded people, that is a violation of international humanitarian law,

Gavin Hood

In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'

George Crabbe

With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.

Lance Loud

The bulk of my learning - if I may call it such - has come within the past three months, after I became a part of the fragile body of patients who make up an AIDS hospice. Here, surrounded by teams of supportive nurses, attentive doctors, and interns, one gently comes upon his own strengths and shortcomings.

Mike Wallace

I had my hearing aid fixed today so that I could properly hear you. I can't see as well. I now have - this has stopped me from smoking - a pacemaker, have for about the last 15 years. No, I don't like getting old.

To minimize some of the challenges we try to standardize the process with our pre-departure orientation, binders full of information on housing, registration, financial aid and other Northeastern logistics and contact details.

W. Averell Harriman

I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over.

Oscar Arias

The absence of significant development aid has only increased the importance of trade for Central America's future.

CeeLo Green

I don't judge people. I don't even judge people on 'The Voice.' I'm a coach. I'm there for constructive criticism and to aid and abet and discover new talent.

George Washington

Thus supported by a firm trust in the Great Arbiter of the Universe, aided by the collected wisdom of the Union, and imploring the divine benediction on our joint exertions in the service of our country, I readily engage with you in the arduous but p

Peter Piot

We are on very thin ice here. AIDS has made a mess of Africa's health care systems, and none of the factors that created the AIDS disaster have gone away. But with bird flu, we could be looking at things getting worse in a matter of months, not decades.

Abraham Lincoln

Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

Jeffrey Sachs

We, being the Western world, wouldn't let Russia off the hook on debt. So there were demands on debt servicing in the early days until they ran out of reserves. There was no real aid program, just a fictional aid program.