Assistance Quotations | Page 6

We are prepared, as in the past, to provide financial support by augmenting existing programs or by providing new financial assistance to countries that experience drought-related balance of payments needs.

I have determined that these fires are of such severity and magnitude that effective recovery is beyond the capabilities of the state and affected local government, and that supplementary federal assistance is necessary,

I have fought to provide emergency assistance for farmers and ranchers to help respond to the downturn in the economy.

Jails may accommodate the religious needs of inmates by funding chaplains' services that offer assistance to all prisoners regardless of their faith. But they cannot pay a Christian ministry to bring only the Christian message into their jails.

There is no doubt that the world economy is in trouble. But if governments or individuals use this as an excuse to reduce assistance to the world's poorest people, they will only multiply the seriousness of the problem for the world as a whole.

We did not bargain for having a million people trying to access an 800 number at the same time, ... For a long time, that was the only way people could access financial assistance. We've been trying to find innovative ways to get that assistance into their hands.

I am deeply grateful that President Bush has taken this initiative and this bold step, because I know that some key people in his administration didn't even want to increase development assistance at all,

Our priority ... is to provide them assistance and to get them home quickly and safely.

Our teams in south Sudan and in Ethiopia are finalizing way stations and organizing for the delivery of assistance to the future returnees.

Our system was spared from the damage that the southern cooperative received, ... That's the great thing about the cooperative network. We are always willing to lend a helping hand when a neighbor is in trouble. We have been on the receiving side of that assistance in the past and I know what a difference it can make.