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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.

I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.

The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.

It is all too evident that our nation, and the governments of other countries, require all the help they can get in order to fight the War on Terrorism against people who have no qualms about taking the lives of innocent men, women, and children.

Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.

When countries commit to protecting vulnerable lives, they should receive support from those who can provide it in order to make their programs a success.

I don't believe we need the government's help as much as some think we do. That belief sets me apart from the Democrats, since their way of dealing with everything is to tax and spend.

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.

International donors, our friends, should demand results; impose results. The fact of giving money is not helping if you give money to honest people and there is no structure to manage that money. It is not helping.