#aid

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#aid #campaign #care #countries #distracted

There isn't a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with President Bush. People need to get upset with their Congressmen. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#congressmen #doing #get #need #nothing

There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#aid #among #black #black hole #brought

As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for. ↗

— Paul Krugman

#find #i #looking #often #online

Through years of secret work, scientific and basic ground work was laid, in order to be ready again to work the German Armed Forces at the appointed hour, without loss of time or experience. ↗

— Gustav Krupp

#appointed #armed #armed forces #basic #experience

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

#consciousness #leaves #living #only #own

In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure. ↗

— Mike Krzyzewski

#better #coach #failure #first #had

There are kids don't want to do something because they're afraid of looking stupid to their peers. There comes a time when they start protecting themselves, instead of extending. I want to make sure that they're always trying to extend themselves. ↗

— Mike Krzyzewski

#always #because #comes #extend #extending

I said in October of 2008 that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or had the intention or capability of attacking the United States. Here we are. Almost 4,700 troops died, tens of thousands injured, over a million Iraqis dead. It will cost $5 trillion in the end for the war. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

#attacking #capability #cost #dead #destruction

What I said was that in a democratic society, people must be permitted to make their choices and that the choices of women should not be subordinate to the choices of men, otherwise women are less than equal, are second-class citizens. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

#citizens #class citizens #democratic #democratic society #equal