Famous Quotes & Sayings

Next week we will start looking in earnest at how to resettle people. Giving them food aid is just the start of a much bigger part of this emergency campaign.

New programs, like Texas Grant, which gives aid to students who are in need and have completed college preparatory work in high school, are being designed to help alleviate financial burdens of college students.

Given the media's focus on Katrina's destruction and on government's poor performance in the hurricane's aftermath, it's not surprising that confidence would fall. But, with aid now flowing and fatalities fewer than expected, that could reverse.

Getting another chance to make our case for more aid is huge, just the fact that the federal government is willing to revisit the issue is a positive thing. And it would be a huge thing if they included the damage in Enfield; a turnaround like that does not happen every day.

Steve Johnson

From a legal standpoint, there's really no consequence that Boney was convicted. When you've got two people involved in a murder and they aid each other, each is equally responsible.

If a school wants our financial aid office to speak to their students about how to fill out the application or any other concerns about financial aid, they can contact us and we can set up a day and time for them to come out.

I experienced how foreign aid for large-scale vaccination projects helps to save the life of children and thus give a real input to growth and to escaping poverty.

Kofi Annan

If 2005 was a year of important progress on aid and debt relief, 2006 must be the year of trade, ... If we are to conclude the Doha negotiations by the end of next year we need to make real progress at the WTO talks in Hong Kong in December.

Charles M. Schwab

I have always believed that the aristocracy of any country should be the men who have succeeded - the men who have aided in upbuilding their country - the men who have contributed to the efficiency and happiness of their fellow men.

I felt it was my job as his mother, ... I brought him into the world with this set of circumstances and I felt like it was my responsibility then to aid him however he wanted to be aided in his curiosities.

I feel that the speed of the aid has been very slow and as an American citizen I've been extremely disappointed by this.

If India gives us aid we would welcome it.

Dambisa Moyo

I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.

Marty Markowitz

I'd like to see every Brooklyn organization raising funds for the relief effort, ... Brooklyn book clubs, sports teams, block associations, business and professional associations, schools, libraries, houses of worship, and any other forum where Brooklynites come together can all join in and make a difference.  I would also like to see all Brooklyn restaurants donate a percentage of their receipts for a week to the relief effort. Right now, donations of money are most urgently needed.  As the rescue and recovery progresses, there will be many other needs, and we will continue to respond as those needs become clear.  Brooklynites can be counted upon to come to the aid of our southern neighbors and we will be there for the long haul.

Quincy Jones

I am committing myself to doing everything possible to pull the resources together to aid the children of not only Cambodia, but the children of all the countries in the world.

I am also thankful for the efforts of the local firefighters who are willing to give of their time for this, and for the Muscular Dystrophy Association that understands the need to come to the aid of our fellow Americans at this difficult time. I'm also thankful to our legions of race fans who are coming together to raise money for the relief effort.

Swoosie Kurtz

I am a passionate AIDS activist, and I wouldn't want to be part of anything that made fun of a disease. I thought this movie had a beautiful message.

In the past, radiation treatment planning has been a very lengthy procedure. Now, with the aid of CT therapy-planning computer programs, we can position the therapy beams automatically with precision in a few minutes.

Gunnar Myrdal

Toward the middle and end of the Fifties, West European countries became somewhat more important as providers of aid to underdeveloped countries. It was partly due to the prodding of the United States that these countries, as they regained economic viability, should shoulder their share of the aid burden.

Dorothea Brande

Act boldly and unforeseen forces will come to your aid.

The fact that Don was hit by a car while he was trying to go to the aid of another motorist is so symbolic, so Don.

Lindsey Graham

I'm the ranking Republican on the foreign aid appropriations subcommittee, so I know Tunisia well.

Gordon Brown

What we've already got is the 100 percent debt write-off for the poorest countries. It's already achieved, we've won it. We've got a doubling of aid from Europe that's to build schools and hospitals, particularly in Africa. That's already agreed. The next stage, over the next few days, is to see if we can go further.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

One of the lessons of Vietnam, which we failed to heed in the Iraq war and the Afghanistan surge, is that before you commit U.S. military forces to aid or assist, it is essential to know what you want them to achieve.

Orrin Hatch

Kids today are still as talented at manipulating the loopholes to the rules imposed on them by their parents, ... The entertainment industry is willing to aid and abet them.

Mitch Daniels

I would think that humanitarian aid to Americans ought to come right at the top of priority lists, ... I, for one, would support all the aid that makes sense to help these places get back together. And if that means that lesser priorities -- and there are plenty that they spend federal tax dollars on out there (in Washington) -- need to take a back seat for a while, that's probably what they should do.

Tom DeLay

He vetoed the foreign aid bill because he wanted to increase foreign aid by 30 percent, and he wanted to take it out of the Social Security surplus,

Greeley always comes to the aid when there is a need.

Anthony Kennedy

has become a leading proponent of one of the most cosmopolitan, and controversial, trends in constitutional law: using foreign and international law as an aid in interpreting the U.S. Constitution.

to freeze any assistance or aid to Cambodia unless Cambodia is back, not only to normality, but to the framework of the Paris peace accords.

To file a suit in the court is very expensive. Poor people cannot pay. We can give them free legal aid and help the poor people,

Gordon Brown

What we have decided today, conscious of the poverty that we face, is a decision of 100 percent debt cancellation for the poorest countries backed up by greater trade justice, by a doubling of European aid, by a commitment to provide AIDS treatments for people by 2010,

Jacques Chirac

had decided to write off all of the aid and development debt owed by Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador.