Fundraiser Quotes - Page 2

• Having done a normal job for 10 years, as a psychiatric nurse dealing with emergencies, I know what terrible, hopeless lives some people have. So in many ways, it's great to be able to wield the financial power that I can, and do gigs, fundraisers or give money. I feel lucky I can help out.

  Jo Brand

  Jobs, Years, Nurse

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• The bottom feeders of the entertainment industry were never invited to presidential inaugurations. The bottom feeders of the entertainment were never used as fundraisers for presidents of the United States. They were ignored. There was always a line. They were always there, and they were always who they were, and they always did what they did. The bottom feeders have now become the standard. That's what's different.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Presidential, Different, Lines

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I remember Stephen King did a fundraiser one time with J.K. Rowling and he was very impressed with her. But we talk a lot about publishing, bookselling, and book writing. He's been around for ten years longer than me and was a bestseller right off the bat. And he's seen and done everything. It's rare to be with somebody who has been through all of that.

  John Grisham

  Book, Writing, Done

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Let me reminding you what Ted Cruz has told me I don't know how many times. The thing that shocked him more than anything his first few days in the Senate was how 90% of what senators do is get reelected. Ninety percent of their time is spent raising money, organizing fundraisers, dealing with the consultants and all who raise the money, planning the events. The other 10%'s being a senator. It shocked him. It was that blatant, that obvious.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Planning, Obvious, Let Me

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I was roommates with 2 of the guys who were influential in forming the Black Arts philosophy. I called them "goons," and [Amiri] Baraka took offense at that. But if you read his autobiography, the night we went up there for a fundraiser, he talks about how he wished that some violence would happen to us. How do you like Baraka as a gracious host?

  Ishmael Reed

  Art, Philosophy, Night

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I have a huge crush on President George W. Bush. I saw him at a recent fundraiser, and he`s a babe. He`s got that Ronald Reagan charm. I think he`s hot. I respect his wife, but if he wasn`t married I`d be putting on my cowboy boots and coming around.

  Roseanne Barr

  Crush, Cowboy, Thinking

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• Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen attended a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton in New York City this week. Hillary told them, 'Good luck with the reboot of your '90s show.' And they said, 'Thanks. Good luck with yours.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  New York, Good Luck, Cities

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• We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work.

  Jesse Jackson

  First Love, Numbers, Long

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• Turn strangers into friends. Turn friends into donors. And then do the most important job: Turn your donors into fundraisers.

  Seth Godin

  Jobs, Important, Stranger

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• The "Great Walk to Beijing" was a fundraiser for my cancer center. It was a three-week trek with fellow cancer "thrivers," including celebrities ranging from Joan Rivers to Leeza Gibbons, and Olympians.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Cancer, Rivers, Three

  Interview with Jessie Sholl, www.everydayhealth.com. September 29, 2008.

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• There was an embarrassing moment at a recent Democratic fundraiser. When John Kerry was handed a $10 million dollar check, he said, 'I do.'

  Craig Kilborn

  Dollars, Moments, Embarrassing

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• Obama has had more fundraisers than the last six presidents combined. And he's still losing in the money race!

  Bill Maher

  Race, President, Lasts

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• We get several requests for contributions each year from organizations in Twin Falls. We don't have enough money in the general fund to help everyone, so we use fundraisers like this to generate money.

  Rick Cook

  Fall, Years, Organization

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• I don't think my grandmother would ever be convinced, but my family was convinced that I was convinced, and actually, they came around. My mother ended up going to fundraisers in Chicago that were raising money to send to the students in the South and actually, over years, she went to an elevated train bus station one day at 6:00 a.m. to hand out leaflets protesting the war.

  Diane Nash

  Mother, War, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In 1980, a well-meaning fundraiser came to see me and said, "Miss Graham, the most powerful thing you have going for you to raise money is your respectability." I wanted to spit. Respectable! Show me any artist who wants to be respectable.

  Martha Graham

  Powerful, Artist, Missing

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood memory”, Doubleday

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• The top group of fundraisers for Mr. Obama raised $457,834 for his 2008 campaign - and were approved for federal grants and loans of $11.4 billion, according to the Government Accountability Institute. Selling access to the federal treasury has been a great way for Democrats to raise campaign funds. Since 1989, according to an analysis by Gateway Pundit, big donors have provided $416 million more in direct contributions to Democrats than Republicans.

  Jack Kelly

  Government, Accountability, Analysis

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• Mitt Romney speaking to a $50,000-a-plate Republican fundraiser says he doesn't have to worry about the 47 per cent of Americans who don't pay tax. He was not counting on the smart phone recording his speech and then posting it on YouTube.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Smart, Phones, Worry

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• George Bush calls his biggest fundraisers Rangers and Pioneers. But today, we stand together, and we call ourselves, simply, Americans.

  Howard Dean

  Pioneers, Today, Rangers

  Official Declaration of Candidacy, www.4president.org. June 23, 2003.

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• You want to know who owns America? A few at the top. And they've got one thing on their mind. No change. Look at Obama, all that hope and promise. No change. He went to Wall Street, had a fundraiser—$35,800 a ticket—and you know who the host was? Goldman friggin' Sachs.

  Buddy Roemer

  Wall, America, Promise

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• I have a cotillion event. Some yacht-club charity fundraiser thingy. Whitney is insisting, and Kit took her side.” Three wide smiles. “Oh shut up.

  Kathy Reichs

  Events, Three, Charity

  Kathy Reichs (2011). “Seizure: A Virals Novel”, p.35, Penguin

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• Every Valentine's Day, the student council sponsered a holiday fundraiser by selling roses that would be delievered in class. The roses came in four colors:white, yellow, red, pink, and the subtleties of thier meaning were parsed and analyzed by the female population to no end. Mimi had always understood it thus:white for love, yellow for friendship, red for passion, and pink for a secret crush.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Crush, Valentine, Passion

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• I hold a little fundraiser every day. Its called going to work.

  Stephen Colbert

  Funny, Work, Littles

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• There was this moment in 2003 when I was asked to do a fundraiser for someone who was speaking out against the Iraq war when nobody was. I said, "I will do a fundraiser for that guy." And then my friend John Hall, from the band Orleans...He ran for Congress in my district and won. I did a bunch of fundraisers for him.

  Dar Williams

  War, Iraq, Guy

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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• We're not out holding fundraisers in the Hamptons or in Beverly Hills.

  Jill Stein

  Beverly Hills, Hills, Hamptons

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• I think the fascinating - several different pieces of the [Donald] Trump psyche revealed by what happened today and one of them is this decision not to hold more fundraisers.

  Michelle Goldberg

  Thinking, Decision, Different

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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