Andrew Natsios Quotes (23 Quotes)

We started a thing called the Global Developmental Alliance -- Secretary of State Colin Powell announced it in 2001, ... and we now have 200 alliances between AID Agency for International Development, foundations in the U. S. and nontraditional corporate donors who want to give their corporate money.

They are going to shut down the World Food Program efforts at the end of this year, which we think is a mistake.

Larry strove to make the world a better place than he found it.

We couldn't spend $91 billion if we wanted to.

I am uncomfortable when any head of state that is tyrannical and predatory comes to a conference like this, and he (Mugabe) fits that category. He is causing the crisis in Zimbabwe.

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

The money was committed on Sunday when the emergency took place,

The humanitarian response mechanism for the U.S. government is now ramping up to a much higher level of readiness,

I think Andrew Card would make a remarkable candidate for U.S. Senate or governor, but I don't know if he would be willing to leave his grandchildren, who live in Washington (D.C.). He is a very confirmed family man.

If you don't have those other conditions, you can put huge amounts of money into aid programs and they'll be ineffective.

Andy has tried to resign several times but the president just would not have it.

It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.

This fund will mainly help pay salaries of government officials and equip their offices.

If you put too much aid too quickly into weak institutions, where there isn't capacity, you have corruption, and the programs don't work.

will help American citizens learn more about official U.S. assistance for Iraq and make contributions to high-impact development projects.

even in a best-case scenario, under optimal conditions, we could see as many as 320,000 people die.

Bono and many other very well-intentioned people have really never actually run aid programs and seen what happens,

We need this opportunity to warn armed factions and some of the militias that they must back the new government or we cannot do our reconstruction.

We believe that the humanitarian needs in North Korea remain significant.

You have to make changes to the capacity of governments to manage programs, to write the right laws, to have the rule of law,

The physical evidence of the mess is a reminder every hour of the day that everything is gone, ... restore a sense of hope that they are not being forgotten and not being lost.

No one in USAID embodied the spirit of compassion and brotherhood that underpins our efforts more than Larry Foley,

the most generous and the most extensive in American history for the U.S. government.