Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're brutally honest with them, and that aids in motivation.

Bill Bixby

We even went to a class about financial aid at the school, ... We thought, 'Oh, we're going to learn all about financial aid tonight.' We walked away and we didn't know any more than the day we walked into the class.

We're also trying to reconcile positions on different issues such as aid and trade. As the largest provider of development aid to the Third World, and the largest trading partner for developing countries, we feel the EU is quite well-placed to play a bridging role.

Jim McCrery

We're also looking obviously at some sort of direct federal aid to the public entities that have no revenue but have to service the revenue bonds," ()

Mary Wilson

We're also hoping that web payments will be available before long. Once the financial aid office gets all of their information ready to go, we could turn this on for students to see the information at home.

Dambisa Moyo

Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.

We haven't made the case for donors to give to need-based aid quite yet or quite well enough. We need a pot of money for unrestricted need-based grants. I'm not sure where that comes from.

Alice Walker

When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they'd always known - the plantations - because they attempted to exercise their 'democratic' right to vote.

Peter Piot

We all need to begin thinking out of the box. Stopping the AIDS epidemic is going to require more than just a medical approach.

Those are some of the hardest-hit places, and they haven't gotten any aid to this point.

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.

one of the most promising solutions for the developing countries and for the international aid architecture.

We could not build projects of this nature without federal aid such as this. This type of project is important to all cities, whether they're in Alabama or Arizona or North Dakota.

Donald Rumsfeld

We believe the humanitarian aid flights were successful, and they will continue today,

Michael Behe

The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion.

Paul Farmer

One of the things we have to acknowledge is that if you look at Haiti, many billions of dollars have gone into development aid there that have not been effective.

Those in law enforcement who would sell their badges to aid in the illegal shipment of narcotics to the United States need to know that we are aggressively investigating their activities,

Mahmoud Abbas

Unfortunately, the pressures have begun and the support and the aid started to decrease ... therefore, we are currently in a real financial crisis.

Unfortunately the aid has been suspended because North Korea has said they are not going to distribute food anymore.

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.

I respectfully submit that the alleged abuses by President Clinton do not indicate that he is a danger to the nation, ... Lying to the public and to his cabinet and aids is disgraceful, but if we would impeach all officials who lie about personal or official matters, I fear that the halls of government would be seriously depleted.

Our hard point (bottom line) is stopping launch aid but there are other points to negotiate.

Our job is to tell the story and if the story includes that this aid doesn't seem to be getting to the people, and a government office is congratulating itself, then it's our job to point that out.

George Soros

Over half of all AIDS cases involving children are directly related to unclean syringes,

Peter Piot

over the past four years two disquieting facts become evident: One is that AIDS is an unprecedented global crisis. There is simply no other example of that kind.

Over the last decades we have made some significant progress in fighting AIDS in our country. But we cannot rest until this progress reaches every corner of the globe and we are able to ensure that no matter where you live, the scourge of AIDS ceases to be the terrifying killer that it is today.

Andrew Mitchell

My top priority will be to secure maximum value for money in aid through greater transparency, rigorous independent evaluation and an unremitting focus on results.

Casey Wilson

My mom's brother was gay, and he actually passed away from AIDS when I was 13. He was quite a character, but he also worked at the electrical plant, so he was this complicated guy with a big laugh who would wear a trucker hat and do impressions. He was gay, but to me, Uncle Alan was just the funniest person in the world.