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Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.

'Dead Aid' is about the inefficacy and the limitations of large-scale aid programs in creating economic growth and reducing poverty in Africa.

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.

I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me.

It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.

So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.

You try and help something, and later on it bites you, so it's a hard decision, but as a country, as a nation, people need our help.

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.