Aid Efforts Quotes

A good friend of mine works at Oxfam and has been closely involved in the charity's aid efforts in Syria.

There is no country on earth that has done more for our own poor and for the poor around the world. We are not the ones that need to be targeted.

Americans are known for their strength, fortitude, and generosity in times of need. We encourage people in the U.S. and everywhere to give with their hearts, reach out to these victims, and donate what they can to the relief efforts.

In countries where there are real civil wars, people go through a lot, and we should be willing to go through a lot to help them.

No one in USAID embodied the spirit of compassion and brotherhood that underpins our efforts more than Larry Foley.

The international community has to overcome its differences and find solutions to the conflicts of today in South Sudan, Syria, Central African Republic and elsewhere. Non-traditional donors need to step up alongside traditional donors. As many people are forcibly displaced today as the entire populations of medium-to-large countries such as Colombia or Spain, South Africa or South Korea.

We need to be able to demonstrate that what we do in today's world, in humanitarian aid, the enormous effort to minimize the tragic situations that we see all over the world, I think, without the U.N., people would suffer much more, and the situation would be much more terrible.

I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble.