Wangari Maathai Quotes

To put everyone in government housing and food stamps and bring them in from around the world I think is a mistake. To give of your own money, I've given to my church. My church has helped people that came from Bosnia. That's a good thing.

One of the cries from the people was, don't forget us. They have a long road ahead of them. Operation Blessing has found those little fishing towns. They will not be getting what other towns are getting from the government.

Billions of dollars are thrown at African countries.

Aid leads to more aid and more aid and more aid and less independence of the people that are receiving aid.

Governments understand that help is power. That is why governments offer as much help to as many people as they can.

No, I’m not one (of those) people who votes for something then writes to the government to ask them to send us money. I did not request any stimulus money.

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years.

So if there is a government grant offered for anything, like starting a business or going to school, they cannot discriminate because of your age.

Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives.

If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.

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

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

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.

Every time the U.S. government makes a low-cost loan to someone, it's investing in them.

After all our experience we are sure that America is the only country able to help us.

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

The overriding purpose of foreign assistance must be genuine development, not the assuaging of Western guilt or the care and feeding of the massive network of career professionals, non-profit organizations and private sector companies that constitute the global aid industry.

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

India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid.

The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.

If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition subsidies.

Every three years, we have to go to the governments and say, okay, you know you're saving millions of lives and even though your budgets are tight, helping Africa avoid this disaster really is a priority.