Famous Quotes & Sayings

He was not out there when the initial fight started. He was coming to the aid of a friend.

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.

We can envision a scenario where elderly may be able to put their walkers or canes down because they've learned to make the same adjustments in their walking patterns. This research may aid in developing a way to teach those people how to walk more efficiently despite their side-to-side motion, to learn the same kind of stability as the penguin.

There is a strong possibility that a lot of people won't have power restored until Monday. We're very busy in southern Fairfield County and we've brought in some crews from our sister company, Western Massachusetts Electric. But many of the companies that we would turn to for mutual aid have problems of their own to deal with.

There is a kind of common linkage among these diseases. Our hope is that this new finding will aid us to devise new treatments for a broad category of disabling disease.

There is no basis for that. Mr. Monica went to Baton Rouge twice to request aid from FEMA.

The purpose of the index was to create a conversation in rich countries about what it means to be a global citizen. We are not just talking about aid volumes; we are also asking questions about whether this aid is going to tyrants and corrupt dictators.

We're in the middle, almost the end of the senior year. They've done all their hard work; they've finally been admitted. Now Mr. Financial Aid comes along and asks, 'How are you going to pay for this adventure?' and it becomes another round of hard work.

Chris Garza

We're obviously very disappointed. We're hoping that Congress will see the importance of leaving the food aid budget as it is -- that 25 percent needs to stay in the U.S..

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.

I appeal to Indian aid workers to send us more tents to save our people from merciless winters,

But there's a lot of pressure on governments to increase aid now to help meet the ( United Nations ) Millennium Development Goals in 2015,

Keith Boykin

He was unusually committed to exposing the truth about AIDS in the black community, and he was unafraid to challenge conventional wisdom.

He has solid, above-average receiving skills and is above-average in handling a pitching staff. He'll be able to aid us in the development of Buck.

James Fenton

Rhyme is a mnemonic device, an aid to the memory. And some poems are themselves mnemonics, that is to say, the whole purpose of the poem is to enable us to remember some information.

Rich country leaders stood up and said they wanted to put children in school and save people from preventable diseases. What is the World Bank going to do to systematically embarrass donor governments that do not improve the quality of their aid in coming years?

Barbara Stocking

Rich country governments must ensure the aid promised last year is used to pay for the millions of doctors, nurses and teachers, which are so badly needed.

Perkins' book covers one angle that people don't think about. We have military weapons that we use around the world to force governments to go our way, but one thing they don't realize is that we use debt as a weapon as well. This book shows how, over the course of time, we've used international aid as a way of indebting nations.

Politically the disaster has been a godsend to Chavez. I'm sure he's going to make a very visible use of the aid that flows in.

Give us more aid and financial security and we will bring more laurels to the country.

God aids the valiant...both to you and to me He will give the help needed.

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.

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.

Our priority is to get much needed aid to those undiscovered communities as soon as possible.

Our goal is to collectively raise and contribute at least $1 million in aid to the victims.