Kerry Kennedy Quotes

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.

When Secretary of State for International Development, it was my mission to ensure that every taxpayer pound was spent to serve those in need, and met U.K. development objectives.

We cannot leave the Central Africans abandoned. Everyone needs to be mobilized to help this country build a future that Central Africans deserve.

My own country, Slovakia, has been there for South Sudan and its people. We made South Sudan a priority country of our official development assistance and humanitarian aid.

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

I am one of the affluent rich living the good life. But I like to think that I am doing my bit to resolve the problems of Africa and am certainly committed to Africa in the long run.

When countries commit to protecting vulnerable lives, they should receive support from those who can provide it in order to make their programs a success.

Of course, aid is only one small part of international development. Some of the greatest benefits to the world's poorest can be achieved through policy changes by developed countries.

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

The World Bank is just a sponge for every do-good idea of relieving poverty.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

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

Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.

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.

While other countries may espouse the liberal utopian dream of a global community, it's usually only to get the richer countries to pay more money for the world's problems.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

Some people think African states cannot be trusted with the cookie jar. But there are absolutely good NGOs who have this feeling of human solidarity and who also recognize that their work can only be supplementary to the government.

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

The United Nations will be at the heart of our international activities. France will assume its full responsibilities at the Security Council by putting its status at the service of peace, respect for human rights and development.

But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.

The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.

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

We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option.

I have always regarded global development as a struggle between the forces of good and evil. Not to be simplified as a struggle between Jesus and Satan, since I do not consider that the process is restricted to our own sphere of culture.