(Bush's) low poll numbers go back to last summer. Andy is not responsible for the poll numbers. |
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. |
Bono and many other very well-intentioned people have really never actually run aid programs and seen what happens, |
Development does not take place in Washington, DC. Development takes place in the rest of the world. |
even in a best-case scenario, under optimal conditions, we could see as many as 320,000 people die. |
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. |
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. |
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 the World Food Program leaves, we're leaving, |
If you don't have those other conditions, you can put huge amounts of money into aid programs and they'll be ineffective. |
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. |
in a matter of days. |
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. |
It's a difficult situation, |