Funding Quotes · Page 5

Without the funding Amtrak needs to keep operating, we will soon see people that rely on Amtrak to get them to work…

— Corrine Brown

The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experience. It's excuses.

— Sarah Lacy

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

— George Allen

We don't have a big party. We don't have election funding. We don't have television time.

— Jair Bolsonaro

Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.

— Jenny McCarthy

Spending on programs such as national defense and funding the operating budgets of all federal agencies represent only 39 percent of our…

— Paul Gillmor

In 1997, the Labour government set out to strengthen funding for the arts - and achieved it.

— Melvyn Bragg

You can vote Liberal or Labor and you’ll get exactly the same amount of funding for your school

— Christopher Pyne

The co-opting of the environmental movement by the petroleum industry had a shattering effect. It crushed nascent biofuel businesses, killed research, cut…

— Josh Tickell

The total station economy is about $800 million dollars a year, and about $90 million comes from the government. In the long…

— Ron Schiller

I say, too, with education, America needs to be putting a lot more focus on that and our schools have got to…

— Sarah Palin

It shouldn't take an emergency for this Administration to deal with the health care needs of our nation's heroes. Funding the VA…

— John Salazar

Since Reagan, it's almost impossible to get funding for research on sexual pleasure. You can find sexual behavior research, but not sexual…

— Naomi Wolf

In January we start saving money, getting out of credit card debt, funding our retirement accounts, and we're doing wonderful. Then, every…

— Suze Orman

I was on the national Pentathlon team for a few years, but there was no funding for athletes in Canada. I was…

— Kris Holden-Ried

It's always been difficult for me to find funding for a story that I want to follow in real time. Financiers are…

— Chris Hegedus

If you do an episode about something like transverse myelitis, it's a real disease that's out there, there are a lot of…

— Peter Jacobson

One very difficult decision was deciding to vote against the appropriations bill for the war. I had consistently said that I wanted…

— Barack Obama

If they were going to go to London or to the UK to find out how health care is, national health care…

— Rush Limbaugh

The Conservation Buck Challenge was designed to engage and mobilize the hunting community to preserve the outdoor experience for future generations. Our…

— Gary Morris

So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what…

— Steve Jobs

Bernie Sanders talks about socialism in Scandinavia, and he's correct to point to the huge victories the working class has won there…

— Kshama Sawant

We're creating this alliance, GAVI, that has helped buy the vaccines that were in the rich world but not getting to the…

— Bill Gates

Despite its potential, the federal government has restricted funding for creating new cell lines - putting the burden of any future research…

— Michael Bloomberg

We need to have much clearer regulations on things like corporate funding of scientific research. Things need to be made explicit which…

— Noreena Hertz

From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.

— Tony Campolo

Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding.

— Scott Adams

It is absolutely key that funding is used to support the best scientists with the best ideas.

— Mark Walport

Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.

— Nigel Calder

“Most funding for American scientific research comes from the federal government (your tax dollars at work).”

— Robert M. Hazen

We will also be funding projects that empower women and children in Afghanistan and now and then give scholarships to Afghan students…

— Khaled Hosseini

Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way…

— Bill Lipinski

Arizona is in the midst of a fiscal crisis. We've cut school funding. And they pass a bill questioning Obama's citizenship? For…

— Kyrsten Sinema

We need to show why the government should be funding science and how that funding delivers.

— Mark Walport

We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public…

— Bart Stupak

We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.

— Kinky Friedman

When I came into the job, funding for the humanities at the federal level was being drastically cut. This was the high…

— Robert Hass

Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his…

— Joe Lieberman

I believe that it is the responsibility of everyone in corporate life to help with the funding of non-profit organizations.

— Frederick Lenz