Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.
We must now make clear to Lebanon that it will not benefit from U.S. assistance and support as long as it harbors this brutal terrorist and murder.
The American people do not want their taxpayer dollars funding any activity that runs counter to the security of our nation or our ally Israel.
Afghanistan will, by the grace of God, stand on its own feet in three to four years time. Until then, of course, we need strong support from the international community, including the United States, to stay with us and support us fully.
The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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.
In fact, there is a very close correlation between human rights violations and US aid, particularly in Latin America.
The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth.
Greece is in the grip of politicians who are amazing unwilling to serve anyone but themselves … Greece is importantly strategically, so the United States is supplying funds to the Greek government, in order to prevent its collapse tomorrow.
I don't disagree with Senator Paul's position that we shouldn't be funding our enemies. But I absolutely believe that Israel is a priority to be able to fund and keep them strong and safe after eight years of this administration.
I think, like many others, I realized that only the massive introduction of American support in one form or another, could possibly bring about a rehabilitation of the economies of those countries within a reasonable time.
America needs to rethink how we distribute our foreign aid around the world.
What I've said is we're going to encourage democracy in Pakistan, expand our nonmilitary aid to Pakistan so that they have more of a stake in working with us, but insisting that they go after these militants.
Sweden did not take part in WWII. We stayed out. None the less we received 120 million dollars in Marshall Plan aid.
European countries give much larger shares of aid for poverty relief than the U.S.
Afghanistan does have an air force: It has two C-130s. I saw one of them. It was nice, a gift from the United States. But two planes don't even make a Caribbean charter airline, let alone an air force for a country at war.
We see that Pakistan is continuing to provide safe harbor havens inside of Pakistan for terrorists who present risks to the United States of America. We are doing our best to inform the Pakistanis that that is no longer going to be acceptable. So this- this conditioned aid, we've given them a chance. If they fix this problem, we're happy to continue to engage with them and be their partner. But if they don't, we're going to protect America.
The Europeans had made two promises to the United States if Marshall Plan help was forthcoming. The first promise was maximum self-help on the part of every country; and second, maximum mutual aid.
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.
Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful.
Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.
But the Americans have no extra money. They have their own problems. They can provide financial assistance for two, three, four, or six months at most.
We're told that the Arabs loathe us. Really? For liberating the Iraqis? For subsidizing the lifestyles of people in Egypt and Jordan, to name but two, for giving them vast amounts of aid? For providing them with science, medicine, technology and all the other benefits of the West? Arabs should go down on their knees and thank God for the munificence of the United States.
With all the foreign aid the United State does... can't we afford to put a police officer in every single school?
You know the most important thing the Americans did for Iraq apart from liberating the country from Saddam was helping Iraq reduce its debt. The United States worked very hard to reduce 80 percent of Iraqi debt.
