Funding Quotes - Page 9

• In my opinion, we need to again consider the possibility of public funding of congressional elections, following the very successful experience with clean money systems in Maine and Arizona.

  Russ Feingold

  Successful, Needs, Maine

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• The gag rule is, is that if any program receiving United States funding for Family Planning cannot mention, cannot speak the word "abortion" in the Third World.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Abortion, Receiving, United States

  Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.

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• During the whole funding process they said, 'We're interested in you guys because of your management team; we think you're fantastic...' Two weeks later they pull me into the office - before even the first board meeting - and say, 'We want to replace you as CEO.'

  Mark Fletcher

  Team, Thinking, Two

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• President Obama has made maternal health one of the core priorities of U.S. international aid funding.

  Liya Kebede

  Priorities, President, Aids

  "Mother’s Day Mission: Help Reduce Maternal Mortality in the Developing World" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 7, 2010.

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• I don't like the idea of telling private business owners. I abhor racism. I think it's a bad business decision to ever exclude anybody from your restaurant. But at the same time I do believe in private ownership. I think there should be absolutely no discrimination in anything that gets public funding.

  Rand Paul

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

  "'All-Star' Panel on Dennis Blair's Resignation and Rand Paul's Civil Rights Gaffe". "Special Report" with Bret Baier, www.foxnews.com. May 20, 2010.

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• The survival rate of Dr Burton's patients approximately doubled the maximum survival rate of conventionally treated patients. Had these findings pertained to a chemotherapy drug instead of IAT, massive amounts of funding would have been allocated to investigate the drug. Once again, the politics of cancer barred a potentially valuable treatment from reaching the public.

  Jared Diamond

  Cancer, Drug, Survival

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• At the time we were funding our national debt, we heard much about "a public debt being a public blessing"; that the stock representing it was a creation of active capital for the aliment of commerce, manufactures and agriculture. This paradox was well adapted to the minds of believers in dreams.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Dream, Wisdom, Blessing

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.239

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• Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s mouth.

  Jaron Lanier

  Inspirational, Civilization, Trying

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• During Richard Nixon’s first term, when I served as secretary of defense, we withdrew U.S. forces from Vietnam while building up the South’s ability to defend itself. The result was a success - until Congress snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by cutting off funding for our ally in 1975. Washington should follow a similar strategy now, but this time finish the job properly.

  Melvin Laird

  Jobs, Cutting, Building Up

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• When elected, I will make education funding a top priority and I believe
  we must ensure those dollars reach our children and the classroom

  Chris Christie

  Children, Believe, Priorities

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• I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my first Jobs was shelving books at a branch of the Chicago Public Library.) Libraries are a pillar of any society. I believe our lack of attention to funding and caring for them properly in the United States has a direct bearing on problems of literacy, productivity, and our inability to compete in today's world. Libraries are everyman's free university.

  John Jakes

  Jobs, Believe, Book

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• Who knew, in 2000, that compassionate conservatism meant bigger government, unrestricted government spending, government intrusion in personal matters, government ineptitude, and cronyism in disaster relief? Who knew, in 2000, that the only bill the president would veto, six years later, would be one on funding stem-cell research? A more accurate term for Mr. Bush's political philosophy might be incontinent conservatism.

  Christopher Buckley

  Philosophy, Government, Cells

  "Let’s quit while we are behind". washingtonmonthly.com. October 1, 2006.

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• I'm a little nervous about public funding. It's better than what we got now.

  Mark Shields

  Littles, Nervous

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Hollywood is running out of money and in order to keep geetting a third financed, you have to rely on overseas funding, and in order to do that, you have to get recognizable names.

  Romany Malco

  Running, Order, Names

  "Romany Malco Chats w/ S&A About “Think Like A Man,” Picking Projects, Black Cinema & More!". Interview with Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. May 7, 2012.

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• This year [2015] has shown with painful clarity that our existing systems, approaches, and funding, are inadequate to the task at hand, and to the amount of human suffering that is ongoing.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Hands, Years, Suffering

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I'm sick of the ignorance that lack of funding has generated, of the fathers who apporach me at dinner parties with their four-year-old girls clasped to their pant legs and say, "Yeah, but studies say kids can buy drugs more easily than they can buy alcohol." To which I always respond, "I guess that means you keep heroin in your liquor cabinet?

  Koren Zailckas

  Girl, Father, Party

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• Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.

  Bobby Scott

  Education, Mean, College

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• I have always advocated for funding and programs that increase our productivity and competitiveness

  George Allen

  Program, Increase, Competitiveness

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• Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

  Bobby Scott

  Fighting, Second Chance, Years

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• Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to.

  Bobby Scott

  Educational, Opportunity, College

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• This president [Barack Obama] is undermining our military. This president is more interested in funding Planned Parenthood than in funding the military.

  Marco Rubio

  Military, President, Parenthood

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• It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.

  Neil Gaiman

  Motivational, Appreciation, Kindness

  FaceBook post by Neil Gaiman from Apr 14, 2010

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• We can become very short-sighted in terms of objectives. The first thing to go during times of economic crisis and budget cuts is funding for things that are essential and not-quantifiable, like the arts. Save Big Bird

  Julia Stiles

  Art, Cutting, Bird

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• California, because of their Equity Funding Formula, moves a step in that direction by sending more resources to communities and students that face greater levels of poverty. But California is doing that from a greater position of real weakness, because they were already so far behind other states in funding per student. It’s a step, but many more steps need to be taken.

  Pedro Noguera

  Real, Taken, Moving

  "There’s a Way to Help Inner-City Schools. Obama’s New Education Law Isn't It". Interview with Kristina Rizga, www.motherjones.com. January 8, 2016.

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• Partnerships can be very big. The relationships you cultivate can help. If you put together a business plan that makes sense and that you can present to other people, they may be able to help you out, especially if you're short of cash. Angel investors, perhaps, may help. You may not have to go through a traditional bank. If you're not able to secure funding, you can get up under someone who has experience, learn from that person, and work your way up.

  Kamerion Wimbley

  Angel, People, Together

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