Iqbal Quadir Quotes

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries

You can easily justify to anyone about the need to keep supporting Israel. We get very generous support. We need it.

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

The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.

By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years.

But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.

Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct clash between our civilians and, most certainly, between our military.

I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.

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.

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.

Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.

The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth.

You take away the money from Israel? No. That's something we can't do.

The best way to help countries around the world is to help them with trade.

Taking into consideration that we are involved in Russia's orbit, any coughing there will produce painful economic and political convulsions here.

From the beginning [of the Cold War] our objective was not to build an empire of satellites, but of nations and regions so that they could become partners.

Economic assistance is one of the most effective weapons at our disposal to influence European political events in the direction we desire.

Make China Strong. Make China String is the only way to ensure that foreign countries will not tart a conflict against us.

The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.

When foreign assistance has a clear mission, buy-in from the aid-recipient country, and explicit metrics for implementation, the United States will be able to transition aid-recipient nations into strong trading partners. One of the greatest examples of this successful transition is South Korea.

The United States provides Israel with crucial security and economic aid and invaluable political backing in the international arena.

Governments do have the duty to protect national interest. But we should not be afraid of foreign funding of Indian CSOs, unless malintent can be proved.

I believe in generous aid policies.

We are for aiding our allies by sharing of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but we're against doling out money government to government, creating bureaucracy, if not socialism, all over the world. We set out to help 19 countries. We're helping 107. We've spent 146 billion dollars. With that money, we bought a 2 million dollar yacht for Haile Selassie. We bought dress suits for Greek undertakers, extra wives for Kenya[n] government officials. We bought a thousand TV sets for a place where they have no electricity.

America always thought it was helping Pakistan. But if it hadn't helped Pakistan, Pakistan would have been a stronger country.