10/09/2024
https://transcripts.cnn.com...
"Throughout the campaign, President-elect Obama stated many times the importance of development assistance to America's foreign policy and national security."
"Sustainable economic growth in poor countries must be a core U.S. development policy objective."
"President Obama and I have embraced the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) to cut global poverty in half by 2015."
"to the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds."