Orphanages Quotes

I`m a Republican only as far as I want a smaller government, I want less government intrusion, I want them to stop pissing on my money and your money, the tax dollars that we give 50 percent of, or 40 percent of, every year, and I want them to be fiscally responsible, and I want these goddamn lobbyists out of Washington. Do that and I`ll say I`m a Republican. But other than that, I want the government to take care of people who need help, like the kids in foster care, the half a million kids who are in orphanages right now - they call them foster homes, but they`re orphanages. I want them to take care of the elderly and give them free medicine, give them whatever they need. There`s tons, billions and billions of dollars that are just being wasted. Okay? I hate government. I`m apolitical. Write that down: I`m not a Republican.

The world around me then was kind of grim. I had to learn to pretend in order to - I don`t know - block the grimness. The whole world seemed sort of closed to me... (I felt) on the outside of everything, and all I could do was to dream up any kind of pretend game. - on drifting in and out of orphanages when she was little

URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.

Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel.

My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we`re not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area.