Andrew Natsios Quotations

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

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.

(Bush's) low poll numbers go back to last summer. Andy is not responsible for the poll numbers.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The political controversy surrounding this Boston's Big Dig could have the effect of throwing cold water on any plans for farsighted infrastructure development around the country.

Many, many large cities have old, crumbling infrastructure that have got to be dealt with in the nearest future, or they're going to be in serious trouble. They'll be unlivable if they don't do something.

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

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

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.

There are going to be immediate food needs in the region and the best way to move food very quickly is to give cash to WFP to buy within the countries in the region,

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.

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

There have been problems. ... I think most of them have been dealt with at this point,

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

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

a standard that Europeans created basically for their own purposes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

If the World Food Program leaves, we're leaving,

If the WFP operation is no longer in place, with its full complement of international staff, there will be no way to even minimally assure that this food gets to its intended recipients,

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.

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