Fund Quotes - Page 23

• The public schools are supported entirely, in most communities, by public funds-funds exacted not only from parents, nor alone from those who hold particular religious views, nor indeed from those who subscribe to any creed at all.

  William J. Brennan

  Religious, School, Views

  4 Copy quote

• Because the bill in reserving a certain parcel of land in the United States for the use of said Baptist Church comprises a principle and a precedent for the appropriation of funds of the United States for the use and support of religious societies, contrary to the article of the Constitution which declares that "Congress shall make no law respecting a religious establishment."

  James Madison

  Religious, Law, Land

  James Madison (1819). “The Writings of James Madison: 1808-1819”, p.133

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I want to fully fund education, No Child Left Behind, special-needs education. And that's how we're going to be more competitive, by making sure our kids are graduating from school and college.

  John F. Kerry

  Children, School, Kids

  "Text Of Bush-Kerry Debate II (5)" by Jarrett Murphy, www.cbsnews.com. October 8, 2004.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's a unique experience when you're doing an independent film where you have one person who puts up all the funds to make the film.

  Forest Whitaker

  Independent, Unique, Film

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My kids don't have a trust fund, they have a debt fund. And when I die, they're $4 million in the hole.

  Adam Sandler

  Kids, Debt, Trust Funds

  "Adam Sandler and Friends Too Grown Up to LOL, But Not for Dropping Trou" by Heather Huntington, www.eonline.com. June 6, 2010.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• ... the best way to own common stocks is through an index fund.

  Warren Buffett

  Active Management, Way, Common

  6 Copy quote

• It is my greatest wish that the Children’s Fund should continue to be a beacon of hope and light.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, Light, Wish

  4 Copy quote

• Faith is a homely, private capital; as there are public savings-banks and poor funds, out of which in times of want we can relieve the necessities of individuals, so here the faithful take their coin in peace.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Faith, Saving, Coins

  7 Copy quote

• In the dissolution of sentimental partnerships it is seldom that both associates are able to withdraw their funds at the same time.

  Edith Wharton

  Divorce, Able, Sentimental

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2333, Delphi Classics

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I had to go on TV with the president of the Catholic League, which is not an official organization at all, just a lot of Catholics, or maybe it's just this guy. He demanded to de-fund art completely and argued that taxpayers should not pay for it. I said people who represent the Catholic Church shouldn't talk about taxes.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Art, Organization, People

  7 Copy quote

• The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.

  William Shenstone

  Infinite, Jest, Sensible

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.176

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration; an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Gay, Mind, Half

  Oliver Goldsmith (1820). “Miscellaneous Works: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His Life and Writings”, p.405

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• We need to tell Australian stories,we need to encourage and fund and present Australian work but we also need to understand that for a sophisticated, educated, culturally aware, modern nation we can't be parochial.

  George Brandis

  Needs, Stories, Sophisticated

  Source: www.abc.net.au

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't care if the Koch brothers or Soros spend their money to promote one candidate or another. I care about members of Congress spending 30%-70% of their time raising money from .05% of us. Change the way we fund elections and you change the corruption.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Brother, Care, Way

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 2, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Change the way we fund campaigns. Until we do, Wall Street will always be able to blackmail the Dems and GOP to giving them what Wall Street wants.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Wall, Giving, Campaigns

  4 Copy quote

• I think it is a cornerstone of our electoral system that you raise electoral funds for elections but that doesn't mean that therefore the implication can be made that the recipients are incapable of transacting their interests and their duties towards people any differently.

  Bill Shorten

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Bill Shorten faces 'difficult' royal commission questioning over political staffer's salary". Interview with Adam Harvey, www.abc.net.au. July 8, 2015.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• [The Republicans] offer . . . a detailed agenda for national renewal. . . . [On] reducing illegitimacy . . . the state will use . . . funds for programs to reduce out-of-wedlock pregnancies, to promote adoption, to establish and operate children's group homes, to establish and operate residential group homes for unwed mothers, or for any purpose the state deems appropriate. None of the taxpayer funds may be used for abortion services or abortion counseling.

  Newt Gingrich

  Mother, Children, Pregnancy

  4 Copy quote

• Students do not need to be labeled or measured any more than they are. They don't need more Federal funds, grants, and gimmicks. What they need from us is common sense, dedication, and bright, energetic teachers who believe that all children are achievers and who take personally the failure of any one child.

  Marva Collins

  Education, Teacher, Children

  Marva Collins (1990). “Marva Collins' Way”, Tarcher

  180 Copy quote

  Show source

• [On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a good try and accumulated a fund of useless information guaranteed to cast a pall over any dinner table.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Book, Museums, Trying

  Elsa Maxwell (1955). “I married the world”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In America, where the electoral process is drowning in commercial techniques of fund-raising and image-making, we may have completed a circle back to a selection process as unconcerned with qualifications as that which made Darius King of Persia. ... he whose horse was the first to neigh at sunrise should be King.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Horse, Kings, Government

  26 Copy quote

• the most powerful bodies in the world, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, are also the least democratic and inclusive.

  Anita Roddick

  Powerful, Organization, World

  7 Copy quote

• You don't date an annuity, you marry it. An annuity isn't a mutual fund that you buy today and sell tomorrow. Nor is it a certificate of deposit, ready for any new use at maturity. When you buy an annuity, you are making (or ought to be making) a 15- or 20-year commitment, at least.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Money, Commitment, Maturity

  Jane Bryant Quinn (2009). “Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy”, p.1073, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• This year, the United States renewed funding of reproductive healthcare through the United Nations Population Fund, and more funding is on the way. The U.S. Congress recently appropriated more than $648 million in foreign assistance to family planning and reproductive health programs worldwide. That's the largest allocation in more than a decade - since we last had a Democratic president, I might add.

  Hillary Clinton

  Years, President, United States

  6 Copy quote

• We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear that poverty is as complicated as high finance.

  Alice Childress

  Thinking, Poverty, Generations

  Alice Childress (2000). “A Hero Ain't Nothin But a Sandwich”, p.37, Penguin

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• To stabilize the nations public-employee pension systems and to prevent federal taxpayers from being billed for failed pension funds, I have introduced the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act in Congress.

  Devin Nunes

  Congress, Taxpayers, Employee

  4 Copy quote