Jose Ramos-Horta Quotes

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

We do not have a budget support. We are now fully independent in terms of requirements, but we still have a need for development assistance separate from the budget. So all the economic aid we receive is for development assistance.

Once the violence has ceased, the US should immediately call on the World Bank and other international institutions to convene a donors conference to rebuild Lebanon's shattered infrastructure.

In China, inaugurations are frequent affairs, though they have nothing to do with presidents. A news cycle rarely passes without some fanfare over the inaugural ride on a new subway line or the inaugural trip across an unusually large bridge.

Conservatives believe that international institutions such as the United Nations are anti-American and anti-Israeli cabals. Progressives do not like the economic medicine that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank force down the throats of developing countries.

World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.

Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.

I think it's really important for Haitians living abroad to go back and help with the development and infrastructure, especially because there are so many international people there.

My mom set up relief programs in third world countries. We would do things like go to Bogota with her instead of summer camp.

We haven't been out in many of these countries helping them build infrastructure. How would they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that, rather than just being the people who are going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan?

I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation.

I did stuff for three years in Kabul that I found exciting, and a lot of that was fixing roofs, talking about sewage installation.

No state can invest the kinds of dollars in infrastructure necessary on their own. They need federal help.

We believe infrastructure is key to economic growth, and we will do what we can to develop infrastructure in India.

I believe that Prime Minister Modi will respond positively to development projects for backward areas. That is why I am promising them.

For cyclone-proof energy infrastructure, we would definitely explore all possibilities, including international support.

We must work to repeal trade agreements that impede access to affordable generic drugs. We must work to cause the IMF and the World Bank to reduce and eventually eliminate the debt that takes poor nations' resources away from crises like AIDS. We must focus America's leadership on addressing and ending this epidemic.

Turkey is doing an enormous amount in the refugee question, but it can't continue to pay for everything by itself. That is why we have to talk to Turkey about money.

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

I, who ne'erWent for myself a begging, go a borrowing,And that for others. Borrowing's much the sameAs begging; just as lending upon usuryIs much the same as thieving.

They had to ask spain I think, they've had to say to Spain, can you lend us some stuff for the roads, and it's Gordon Brown phoning up going 'pass the salt'

I believe in generous aid policies.

Borrowing is not much better than begging.

I do wish that the IMF and the World Bank would disappear soon.

The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.