When you're supported by millions all over the world, you can either go nuts, or try to feed off the goodwill.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
But there are many, and I'm a supporter of a great deal of charities.
I feel like I'm capable of doing so many things to help people around the country and the world.
As you might imagine, I'm approached by lots of organizations and lots of people who want me to support their various charitable efforts in some way. And I look at those requests, and I basically try to do what I can.
Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of money to charitable causes. In fact, we expect them to do so.
I'm very politically active, but that has nothing to do with my charity.
Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never let your door be closed to the voice of suffering humanity.
We spend billions on international aid annually, but we don't find ways to connect people to dignified work. I realized that if we don't think about ways to harness private capital to solve problems, we're leaving large amounts of money on the table and doing ourselves a disservice.
Help is even being offered from across the ocean, as over two dozen countries have stepped forward to offer financial and material support to the American people.
We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.
The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.