Dan Webster Quotes

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.

We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But the main reason we do foreign assistance is we do it in the American national interest.

Republicans are pushing legislation forward that will improve the effectiveness of and bring more accountability to U.S. foreign assistance around the world and bring democracy even further into the light.

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.

We need to plus-up the budget of the State Department, increase the amount of aid we give, and help the world through this difficult moment. That is the price of leadership.

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

Relations between the United States and other countries, and our role as a global leader, are advanced by our willingness to help other countries in need. Foreign aid is essential to protecting U.S. interests around the world, and it is also a moral responsibility of the wealthiest, most powerful nation.

Billions of dollars are thrown at African countries.

Development does not take place in Washington, DC. Development takes place in the rest of the world.

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

We have been helping, trying to help Afghanistan in many ways, even from the beginning of... the beginnings of the '20s, 1920s, when he we were fighting our own national struggle.

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

It doesn't make a lot of sense for us to borrow money from the Chinese to go give to another country for humanitarian aid. We ought to get the Chinese to take care of the people.

They are responsible for starting this relationship and wanting to help Africa. The United States is very well suited for this as they are a country that has the capacity, they have better access to technology and they are a successful country.

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

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

The United States … has never been isolated, never can be isolated, and has no desire to be isolated. The people of the United States are not only ready but willing and desirous to help their fellow-men, especially those of western civilization, in any way that is possible.

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

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

I'm not going to say that the problems of my government, or those of Bolivia, are the fault of the United States. But they could have done a little more to help us.

We pay billions - hundreds of billions of dollars to supporting other countries that are in theory wealthier than we are.

If the Americans do not want to support us anymore, let them go, get out! Let them forget their humanitarian promises!

Why should [Uncle Sam] send 20 billion dollars down there [South America], which is going to go down the drain every time you have a racial in - incident in this country?

I'm an internationalist. I want to help others, not just kill terrorists.

Every nation at the end of the day must fend for itself. Sometimes, it needs help. And Ukraine deserves all the help in the world.