Lies and conspiracies about my family and me are nothing new
But if the real goal of that program is just to sell them oil and natural gas as the solution to this, and they have to buy ours of course … that’s really a bad approach,
USAID should cease its war on fossil fuels in the developing world and support the responsible management of oil and gas reserves as the quickest way to end wrenching poverty and the need for open-ended foreign aid,
I can see the Trump people just repurposing aid to be some sort of pro-energy promotion kind of thing,
Hey, hey, ho, ho, Elon Musk has got to go.”
USAID isn’t pursuing its own agenda on renewable energy versus fossil fuels,
In fact, it should be a centerpiece … of our economic diplomacy,
It’s perverse that, on the one hand, we’re talking about alleviating poverty through foreign aid, but adopting climate policies that actually aggravate poverty for the simple reason that we’re preventing them from investing their own oil and gas technologies and industries that could finance their own social services, to create wealth, jobs and be more sovereign,
I am sympathetic to the idea that there is significant waste and unnecessary expenditures in the federal budget, but the way to cut spending is to go through Congress and pass laws either rescinding or preventing the future appropriations of these programs,
Handing billions of dollars to a department that doesn’t have the right experience is not going to protect taxpayers’ money, is not going to make America safe and is not going to be effective for our foreign policy,
The death of Awlaki marks another significant milestone in the broader effort to defeat al Qaeda and its affiliates,
This form, dated 1990, confirms that Anwar al-Awlaki was qualified for an exchange visa and that USAID was providing ‘full funding’ for his studies at Colorado State University,
We have to solve the efficiency problem,
I could see that she really loves stories of our success, stories of how women are impacting communities around the globe,
The ability of the entire community to move out of poverty is really going to be slowed down or compromised,
USAID has really treated those in the community like their friend,
Even if most Americans probably do not closely follow the various nuances of foreign aid policy, these results suggest that there exists broader support for the US maintaining an active role in global humanitarian and development efforts than some might expect,
It’s fairly unusual this early in their term to have only around one-third of Americans believing they’re acting in the public's best interests. Historically, new presidents often enjoy a ‘honeymoon period’ during which the public tends to trust their motives, or at least give them the benefit of the doubt,
Any further attempts to curtail or overhaul USAID could therefore face significant public pushback, as a substantial share of Americans seem to value the benefits of foreign aid both as a tool of U.S. influence overseas and potentially as a reflection of the nation’s leadership on the world stage,
It's really touching…I'm glad that I'm here to see in person what children are going through and see that [USAID is] educating them in the right way.”