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• I'm not surprised that Governor Dean would oppose [the $87 billion to fund Iraq reconstruction].... I've lost confidence that he has any understanding of the national security responsibilities of a President... [b]ecause I don't believe that he has any understanding of the international role that the United States has to play in the world. I think it's a kind of a pseudo-isolationism that appeals to the base of the caucus voters. I do not believe that particularly in the case of Iraq that Governor Dean has any fundamental understanding of what's at stake here.

  John McCain

  Believe, Responsibility, Thinking

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• Robert Torricelli, a powerful fund-raiser who helped raise more than $100 million for the Democratic party, took inappropriate gifts from a businessman, including an $8,000 gold Rolex watch, for which he was severely admonished by the Senate Ethics Committee in July. To recap: raising $100 million in contributions from gigantic corporations - ethical; taking a watch - unethical. That's the Senate Ethics Committee, an oxymoron since 1974.

  Jon Stewart

  Powerful, Party, July

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• Bean-counting government bureaucrats are free to take race, ethnicity and gender into account when doling out public funds to non-white-male contractors. But God help law enforcement officers, air marshals and border agents who try to use those same factors to combat terrorism and protect American lives.

  Michelle Malkin

  White, Race, Government

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• California is no longer a state, it's a hedge fund.

  Craig T. Nelson

  California, Politics, States

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• I should mention that I am a member of the board of directors of Dimensional Fund Advisors.

  Merton Miller

  Directors, Boards, Should

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• Today we are united, strong and on the move. Today we have a strong strike fund. Today we have the resources to run large-scale organizing campaigns against global employers. Today we have $100 million in the bank.

  James P. Hoffa

  Running, Strong, Moving

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• I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples.

  John Updike

  Art, Book, Home

  John Updike's tstimony given before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor in Boston, Massachusetts, January 30, 1978.

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• Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.

  Saadi

  Ignorance, Notorious, Conversation

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• The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies that repeat this process because it provides the highest return on that financial capital.

  Paul Hawken

  Corporations, Return, Financial

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• In London there was no home cooking worthy of the name. When you were in funds you ate out. But only the people whose faces appeared in such publications as Town and Queen could afford to eat in restaurants serving food which would leave them looking and feeling better instead of worse.

  Clive James

  Funny, Queens, Humorous

  Clive James (2012). “Always Unreliable: Memoirs”, p.307, Pan Macmillan

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• There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation and discrimination on a reluctant nation's social agenda. Would black churches have been able to take the lead in the struggle had they been dependent on funds doled out for 'faith-based initiatives' . . . ?

  Susan Jacoby

  Powerful, Struggle, Independent

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• For however much the state may gain by not having to fund roads on its own, society would lose in aggregate if the open commons of transportation were lost.

  Lawrence Lessig

  May, Gains, Lost

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• The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds.

  Edmund Burke

  Money, Foundation, Use

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1560, Delphi Classics

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• Thus, if there is anyone who is confident that he can advise me as to the best advantage of the state in this campaign which I am about to conduct, let him not refuse his services to the state, but come with me into Macedonia. I will furnish him with his sea-passage, with a horse, a tent, and even travel-funds. If anyone is reluctant to do this and prefers the leisure of the city to the hardships of campaigning, let him not steer the ship from on shore.

  Livy

  Horse, Sea, Cities

  Book 44, chapter 22. Reported in "Livy" by Alfred C. Schlesinger, vol. 13, p. 161, 1951.

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• If these assets were set up as a revolving fund with which Japan could import raw materials for its industries, Japanese exports could again enter the channels of world trade-and Japanese workers would have employment and something to eat.

  James Forrestal

  Japan, Raw Materials, Employment

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• I started a business with two guys I played with, Ronnie Lott and Harris Barton: Champion Ventures, it's a fund of funds. We have $400 million or so under management.

  Joe Montana

  Two, Guy, Champion

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• I hate fund-raising. Haaaaate it. Hate, hate it.

  Michelle Obama

  Hate, I Hate

  Michelle Obama, Lisa Rogak (2009). “Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words”, p.116, PublicAffairs

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• The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform.

  Ron Chernow

  People, Mutual Fund, Relentless

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• I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.

  Ehud Barak

  Venture, Lectures, Finance

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• Of course, it's hard to support full-time programmers, so we do get funds from a set of companies that are interested in the health of the Mozilla project and so are willing to support the people working for the Foundation as well.

  Mitchell Baker

  People, Support, Mozilla

  "Mozilla Foundation Chief Mitchell Baker Replies". Interview with Robin "Roblimo" Miller, interviews.slashdot.org. March 23, 2005.

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• I'm not a trust-fund type.

  Eric Church

  Type, Trust Funds

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• Nobody has ever denied that when it comes to his trade - gigolo - John Forbes Kerry is one of the all-time greats. He's in the Gigolo Hall of Fame. See, a really good gigolo might snag one heiress in a lifetime with a nine-figure trust fund. Kerry has married two. When it comes to gigolos, he's Steve Jobs.

  Howie Carr

  Jobs, Two, Might

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• It's clear to me when you do private equity well, you're making companies more efficient and helping them grow and become more profitable. That success means our investors - such as public pension funds - benefit, which contributes to the economic wealth of society.

  David Rubenstein

  Mean, Benefits, Helping

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• We also need a fund that can say 'no'.

  Rodrigo Rato

  Needs

  "Finance ministers urge vigilance". www.cnn.com. October 4, 2004.

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• Enrollment in Colorado is expected to expand about 25 percent in seven years. It's very difficult to find those additional funds. Therefore, I think you're probably going to have increased pressure on tuition.

  Roy Romer

  Thinking, Years, Tuition

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