Marco Rubio Quotes

I think a lot of the problem with foreign aid and things like that is you go in, give a bunch of stuff, and then it runs out. It's about helping them learn how to continue to be sustainable and live.

America needs to rethink how we distribute our foreign aid around the world.

In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.

I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.

To make sustainable progress in reducing extreme poverty will require improvements in both the quantity and quality of aid.

Britain is doing brilliant things around the world and that is why I described as a 'superpower on development.'

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

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.'

The typical American-funded [foreign aid] project has American contractors who take, between overheads back home and in-the-area administrative fees, 35 to 50 percent. It used to be, by the way, that every developed country did this, but America is about the only one still doing it. And I’ve been trying to break it for a long time …. I hope I don’t have to be buried knowing that we’re still the only rich country in the world that gives this … percentage of foreign-aid money to our own people.

The Playground of Foreign Aid Experimentation: From 2006 to 2011, development aid from countries and multilateral organizations amounted to more than $30 billion, with limited results, much of the funds fueling mismanagement and corruption.

We continue to send money to the U.N. for countries who are anti-American and anti-Israel - it's got to stop.

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.

Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.

Our aid budget has a crucial role to play in shaping the world according to our universal values of democracy, enterprise and justice.

U.K. aid is responding to our changing world and tackling the great challenges of our time. It is transforming lives in the poorest countries and making the world healthier, safer and more prosperous for everyone.

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.

Aid should shift to investment. This will help countries stand on their own.

But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.

To claim the World Bank is just an extension of U.S. foreign policy is just wrong.

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.

... advancing against disease, hunger and poverty ... are ... the moral purpose of American influence.

After 43 years and $568 billion in foreign aid to the continent, Africa remains trapped in economic stagnation.

Since world demand [for foreign aid] exceeds are ability to supply, we are going to have to concentrate our emergency assistance in areas where it will be most effective.

The aid system is broken. The international aid system was designed for the 20th century. However, we are in the 21st century.

Countries that will not tax their elite who expect us to come in and help them serve their people are just not going to get the kind of help from us that historically they may have.