Foreign Aid Quotes

• Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Rich Countries, People

  "Rand Paul: Foreign Aid Goes From Poor People In Rich Countries To Rich People In Poor Countries". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 3, 2013.

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• Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Important, United States, Tools

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• In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend.

  Pauline Hanson

  Country, Years, Legends

  "Revisit Pauline Hanson's infamous maiden speech". www.sbs.com.au. July 19, 2016.

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• By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.

  James Buchan

  Survivor, Pouring, Sometimes

  "War Games: The Story of Aid and War in Modern Times by Linda Polman". www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2010.

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• By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Philosophy, Men, Hands

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• Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?

  Nigel Farage

  School, Cutting, Europe

  "Theresa May accused of lifting cat anecdote from Ukip leader" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2011.

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• Foreign aid is a method by which the United States maintains a position of influence and control around the world

  John F. Kennedy

  United States, World, Influence

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• Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense...but when foreign aid is carefully guided and targeted at a specific issue, it can and must be effective.

  Kay Granger

  Issues, Investment, Aids

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• For the United States, supporting international development is more than just an expression of our compassion. It is a vital investment in the free, prosperous, and peaceful international order that fundamentally serves our national interest.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Compassion, Expression, Order

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• We stand for self-reliance. We hope for foreign aid but cannot be dependent on it; we depend on our own efforts, on the creative power of the whole army and the entire people.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Army, Self

  Zedong Mao (1967). “Selected Works”

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  Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Rich Countries, Giving

  Ron Paul (2008). “Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property”, p.342, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• One of the most ridiculous defenses of foreign aid is that it is a very small part of our national income. If the average American set fire to a five-dollar bill, it would be an even smaller percentage of his annual income. But everyone would consider him foolish for doing it.

  Thomas Sowell

  Fire, Average, Dollar Bills

  "Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays". Book by Thomas Sowell, 1999.

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• Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense.

  Kay Granger

  Poverty, Investment, Aids

  "The Future of Funding: Development Aid as an Investment" by Dan Silverstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2011.

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• Aid makes itself superfluous if it is working well. Good aid takes care to provide functioning structures and good training that enables the recipient country to later get by without foreign aid. Otherwise, it is bad aid.

  Paul Kagame

  Country, Training, Care

  "'We Are Far from Exhausting Our Potential'". Interview with Horand Knaup, www.spiegel.de. July 6, 2010.

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• Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure. Voluntary private investment in private enterprise, on the other hand, promotes capitalism, production, independence, and self-reliance.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Government, Self, Hands

  Henry Hazlitt, Hans F. Sennholz (1993). “The Wisdom of Henry Hazlitt”, Foundation for Economic Education

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• Foreign aid breeds kleptocracies, or governments of thieves.

  James Bovard

  Government, Thieves, Aids

  James Bovard (2015). “The Bush Betrayal”, p.110, Macmillan

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• A nation as such does not give aid to another nation. More precisely, the common citizens of our country, through their taxes, give to the privileged elites of another country. As someone once said: foreign aid is when the poor people of a rich country give money to the rich people of a poor country.

  Michael Parenti

  Country, Rich Countries, People

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• It's true that I refused foreign aid. It's true. It wasn't my personal decision, however - it was the whole country that said no.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Decision, Aids

  Source: sangam.org

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• Foreign aid is important. If it's done right, it spreads America's influence around the world in a positive way.

  Marco Rubio

  America, Important, Done

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• Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U.S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding themselves.

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Country, Agriculture, Poor

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• There’s no copy-and- paste system in foreign aid.

  Atifete Jahjaga

  Aids, Copies

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• I have said it before but it bears repeating: Aid is not a gift. The United States provides foreign assistance because it serves OUR interests.

  Howard Berman

  United States, Bears, Aids

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• It is hard to sell Congress and the American people on foreign aid. Is it harder to do that than it is to sell billionaires on the idea that they should give all their money away.

  Bill Gates

  Ideas, People, Giving

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• Relations between the United States and other countries, and our role as a global leader, are advanced by our willingness to help other countries in need. Foreign aid is essential to protecting U.S. interests around the world, and it is also a moral responsibility of the wealthiest, most powerful nation.

  Patrick Leahy

  Country, Powerful, Responsibility

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• A national movement, which does not include in its platform the demand for an economical change advantageous to the masses has no chance of success unless supported by foreign aid.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Doe, Movement, Demand

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