Laura Bush Quotes

The phenomenal generosity of the United States in its aid budget towards health issues is the best in the world. You can look at that broadly, you can look at it in terms of HIV, the PEPFAR money which came together in a Republican administration with bipartisan support.

Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it's aid-neutral.

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.

The president recognizes that funding global health is good for national security, domestic health and global diplomacy. Consequently, President Obama has steadily increased funding for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, which was created by President Bush and has strong bipartisan support.

We've always been the most generous nation in the world when it comes to caring for those outside of our borders.

President Obama has pledged $3 billion to aid poor nations. All of that $3 billion is going to the United States.

It's not fair for the U.S. to spend, on arms and weapons, so much money and then not spend on health care the money that is needed.

I believe our foreign assistance should be scrutinized, should be debated, and that we should strike the right balance, but in all cases the foreign assistance that we provide around the world should be used to further our national security interests.

I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble.

It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.

Foreign aid projects have pumped billions of dollars into the Afghan economy.

Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.

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.'

Foreign aid just doesn't have the constituency that domestic programs do.

That's where all the foreign aid (which might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries) went as well. The U.S. government still squanders about $20 billion a year this way, and European governments spend proportionally even more; it's all gone straight down a giant rat hole.

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

George W. Bush is very popular in Sub-Saharan Africa. Why? Because of PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief.

Our country has been the leading provider of humanitarian aid for refugees.

As soon as President Bush announced PEPFAR at the State of the Union, I had already been working in Africa for about five or six years.

No nation helps more people around the globe. Our deep generosity is given so freely that it is simply expected, by others and by ourselves. From Ethiopia to Haiti to Japan where there is tragedy, famine or disaster, we lead the way with private and public help.

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.

I believe that UNICEF is the most important branch of the U.N.; they do exceptional work to help the neediest children around the world

If I've learned anything in the more than 50 years that I've led MDA, it's that the generosity of the American people knows no bounds. I'm sure that with their fellow citizens in such dire need, they'll dig deep and do everything they can to help. I'm hopeful that many people will be willing to make two phone calls and donate to both causes.

I think that the Detroit auto industry is important to the United States. It's important for hundreds of thousands of Americans who have their jobs as a result.