Aid Programs Quotes

For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.

You know, there's a real irony in U.S. assistance programs. First of all, I think it's misnamed. We're not so much trying to help people as we're trying to help ourselves. So let's be clear about this. So these are - in my view, they're cold calculations of national security and not aid programs.

The developing countries must be able to take a more active part in trade negotiations, through technical assistance and support from the developed countries.

Billions of dollars are thrown at African countries.

We have learned by now, or should have, that the best-intended designers of aid programs can make ghastly mistakes in their sophisticated plans.

I was particularly talking with respect to aid, because that to me is one area that can make people so dependent, and unfortunately, that dependency starts with the government.

You need to support human development and human capital as much as possible. And we've had 25 years of programs, great programs. We supported 125,000 surgeries. We fund 15,000 scholarships every year for college and higher education. We gave bicycles for rural areas. We gave laptops.

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