Funding Quotes · Page 6

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

There's no question in my mind that there's a problem with the funding of our universities here in Quebec.

— Pierre Moreau

The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to…

— James Wolcott

The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards…

— Flea

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

It's important that public funds be spent in research directions that are pushing market frontiers rather than working in existing areas. This…

— Mariana Mazzucato

Businesses should absolutely set aside funding in their budgets for security consultants. Unless there is an expert on staff, and there usually…

— Kevin Mitnick

Washington, D.C., has a much greater risk than Manchester, N.H. They both need some level of funding, but they ought not to…

— Warren Rudman

Launch your product or service before you have funding. See how people respond to it before you have a PowerPoint and business…

— Chad Hurley

I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is…

— Jon Secada

Besides the devastating impact that the Ryan budget has directly on individuals, it does nothing to support job creation or our global…

— Albio Sires

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

— Michael Bloomberg

There's a true schizophrenia where if you say to voters, you know, do you think the federal government spends too much money…

— Bill Gates

“Pick a leader who will keep jobs in your country by offering companies incentives to hire only within their borders, not one…

— Suzy Kassem

I was inspired by what students have done in some schools organizing walkouts protesting the lack of funding and that sort of…

— Michelle Alexander

The survival rate of Dr Burton's patients approximately doubled the maximum survival rate of conventionally treated patients. Had these findings pertained to…

— Jared Diamond

Liberals claim to love gays when it allows them to vent their spleen at Republicans. But disagree with liberals and their first…

— Ann Coulter

Third, we will continue to draw on our substantial counterterrorism capabilities to prevent ISIL attacks. Working with our partners, we will redouble…

— Barack Obama

It is a game of chess with this city. We'll have to see how it is going to play out. The city…

— Bill Vaughan

To make the peaks higher. [His reason to target philanthropic funding to only the best university science departments.]

— Wickliffe Rose

Usage tends to be global, while funding tends tobe local. When we allow it to happen, usage of a digital library is…

— Tom Peters

We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly,…

— Ron Chernow

Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector.

— Jane Alexander

Corporations are not people. They shouldn't be funding. They shouldn't be funding campaigns at all.

— David Suzuki

Research, in nature’s laboratory, never stops. It explores every possibility. It never lacks funding. It is never demoralized by failed experiments. It…

— Verlyn Klinkenborg

Nobody can guarantee the real terms per pupil funding increase. In the Labour party's manifesto we know the figures don't add up.

— Theresa May

I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly…

— Elizabeth Edwards

Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense.

— Richard Scaife

This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.

— Norm Dicks

True creative cities produce the legacy of an idea that does what funding cannot do: to foster..

— Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The states do have more control over education, and they have the responsibility for funding it.

— Miguel Cardona

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

— Liya Kebede

If each of us is to feel that he or she is valued, this calls for more than public funding.

— Kjell Magne Bondevik

I'd love DonorsChoose.org to become a place where teachers can post innovative, out-of-the-box projects that they can't get funding for traditionally.

— Charles Best

I will veto any spending bill that contains funding for Planned Parenthood, facilities that perform abortion and all government family planning schemes.

— Ron Paul