Bill Gates Quotes

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

Foreign aid does not go to foreign people. Foreign aid goes to foreign despots and dictators.

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.

It's not an accident that the U.S. ranks lowest of all major donor countries in the world - that is the share of our income that goes to development aid. Americans will ask whether, because were so generous privately, that makes up the difference. But it doesn't. We still rank far below other countries.

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

During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.

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

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.

It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.

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.

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

We were willing to support almost any scoundrel almost anywhere around the globe provided he was willing to wave an anti-Communist banner.

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

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

I believe in generous aid policies.

Failed states are mainly a threat to their own inhabitants. We should help them anyway.

The fall of Arab autocrats creates more risks than opportunities for the United States. As Arab political horizons expand, the space for America to pursue its interest may well contract.

The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile, to appease its hunger.

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

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

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.

China, North Korea's last ally in the world has just voted agaisnt them [in the United Nations]. What would you do if you thought every country in the world was against you and you wanted to survive? You would buy insurance. And the best insurance you could get to prevent invasion would be nuclear weapons, and that is just what North Korea has done. So now, when the President [Trump] threatens them, what do they do? They go out and buymore insurance.

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

We no longer live in an era in which foreign policymakers can claim to serve their nations' interests treating what happens to people in other countries as an afterthought... What happens to people in other countries matters. It matters to the welfare of our own nations and our own citizens.