Angus Deaton
Angus Deaton

Foreign aid, especially when there is a lot of it, affects how institutions function and how they change.

Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis

Congress has shortchanged not only foreign aid but foreign policy. A mistaken notion that diplomats are unimportant and hence undeserving of support grips conservative legislators, especially.

Brian Behlendorf
Brian Behlendorf

Foreign trade is not a replacement for foreign aid, of course, but foreign aid to a country that doesn't also engage in significant amounts of foreign trade is more likely to end up in the pockets of dictators and cronies.

Dan Webster
Dan Webster

Some people have been talking about - every place I go, they bring up the issue of foreign aid. I go, 'You can't get rid of all foreign aid.'

Dan Webster
Dan Webster

Do I like foreign aid? Sometimes, but not every time. Don't like giving money to our enemies, but I love giving money to Israel.

Erin O'Toole
Erin O'Toole

I do not think that abortion services should be part of our foreign aid funding in any way.

George Wallace
George Wallace

It seems that other parts of the world ought to be concerned about what we think of them instead of what they think of us. After all, we're feeding most of them, and whenever they start rejecting 25 cents of each dollar of foreign aid money that we send to them, then I'll be concerned about their attitude toward us.

Iqbal Quadir
Iqbal Quadir

Barack Obama has talked a lot about changing the way America relates to the world, and few areas are as ripe for reform as our policies on foreign aid.

Jacqueline Novogratz
Jacqueline Novogratz

Despite the hundreds of non-governmental organizations and the continued outpouring of foreign aid, East Africa remains as a region overwhelmed by extreme poverty.

James Buchan
James Buchan

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