Funding Quotes - Page 11

• Usage tends to be global, while funding tends tobe local. When we allow it to happen, usage of a digital library is remarkably diverse and widespread.

  Tom Peters

  Library, Digital, Usage

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized.

  Tom Peters

  Bricks And Mortar, Library, Digital

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• It may be primarily property taxes in the case of a public library, or state taxes and tuition in the case of an academic library at a public university, but the funding sources of most libraries continue to have a strong geographic component.

  Tom Peters

  Strong, Library, Tuition

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• Obamacare is a crime against democracy because a material part of that bill was not disclosed to the Senate nor to the House of Representatives. The funding was hidden in the bill. That was fraud and I can't vote for any budget that fails to bring back that money from Obamacare.

  Michele Bachmann

  Obamacare, House, Democracy

  "I Have a Spine Made Out of Titanium". Interview with Marc Hujer, www.spiegel.de. April 18, 2011.

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• We all know a lot of people who died in 9/11, the World Trade Center. A lot of money funding that mission is directly tied - from the 9/11 Commission, directly tied to Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas.

  Barack Obama

  Iran, People, World

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Europe's financial system is fragmented, although the gap in funding costs for banks within the euro area is no longer as wide as it was two years ago. But in lending the differences are still very large, and in some countries the credit flow is disrupted.

  Mario Draghi

  Country, Differences, Years

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• think there's a culture of Silicon Valley that seems to have the attitude that you can have it both ways, that you can be an insurgent but also, ultimately, it's paid for by advertising, when in fact advertising is totally retrograde. Now that's an industry we should be disrupting, and maybe you disrupt it by funding public media. None of this is technological destiny; there are only social choices.

  Astra Taylor

  Attitude, Destiny, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you have an idea that seems worth doing, don't wait to hire other people and get funding and all those things. Just start doing it, wait to see what happens, and then iterate on that.

  Salman Khan

  Ideas, People, Waiting

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• Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

  Bobby Scott

  Issues, Years, Adequate

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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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• When a hedge-fund guy gets lucky because the market goes up, and he is going to make $200m, and you know $200 million, and he is going to pay almost no tax. I don't think that is a good thing for the country, and they are all supporting Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton, all the hedge-fund guys. I don't want their support, because I'm totally self-funding my campaign.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.economist.com

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• I don't need anybody's money, it's nice.I'm totally self-funding my campaign, and the people like that, because you know, when they come to me after an election, where you win, and they say will you keep my taxes low? Or will you give us insurance here? Or do this or that or a thousand different things, or the lobbyists.

  Donald Trump

  Nice, Winning, Self

  Source: www.economist.com

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• One very difficult decision was deciding to vote against the appropriations bill for the war. I had consistently said that I wanted to make sure our troops got the adequate and training in the war effort, despite the fact that I opposed the war at the point that the president decided to double down and send more troops. I had to vote against funding as a way of bringing it back to the table. That was a difficult decision for me.

  Barack Obama

  War, Effort, Decision

  Source: www.politico.com

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• What I find astounding is that we've had a president who is black in office for the past eight years, who gets most of his funding from the liberal elite in Hollywood. Yet, there are not very many roles for people of color. How can that be? And why is it just now being addressed?

  Stacey Dash

  Past, Eight, Color

  "Stacey Dash on Oscars Outrage: 'It's Ludicrous ... Either We Want to Have Segregation or Integration'". "FOX & Friends", www.cnsnews.com. January 20, 2016.

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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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• [Mikhail] Saakashvili will use all legal and illegal means possible to remain in power. People are being threatened to prevent them from collaborating with the opposition. At the same time, he is terrorizing the business world, which prevents the opposition from gaining any funding.

  Irakli Okruashvili

  Mean, People, Use

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Ronald Reagan four times accepted the limits in contributions of what he could take, what he could spend, and the public funding for the general elections. So I just think the idea that it didn't work, and didn't work - it did work. It worked brilliantly.

  Mark Shields

  Thinking, Ideas, Four

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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• The musical culture in the United States has no doubt suffered severe setbacks, especially in funding, since the early 2000's. However, I've been amazed at the resiliency of those involved with contemporary music in this country. I think composers and those dedicated to contemporary music have reacted with tremendous creativity and resourcefulness.

  Michael Hersch

  Country, Creativity, Thinking

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• No public funding for abortion; it imposes a view.

  Joe Biden

  Views, Abortion

  "Joe Biden On the Issues". content.time.com. April, 2007.

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• Europe has been in the grip of a very serious economic crisis for few years, so there have been major cuts to anti-terrorist funding, to intelligence funding. So we do not have the manpower to carry on this kind of monitoring.

  Loretta Napoleoni

  Cutting, Years, Europe

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• There's a true schizophrenia where if you say to voters, you know, do you think the federal government spends too much money and they should spend less, they say yeah, absolutely. Then you name specific things, like Pell grants for students and they say, no, not that. How 'bout NIH, medical research funding? Nah, you really shouldn't cut that. And pretty soon you've proved that what the American public is against is arithmetic.

  Bill Gates

  Cutting, Thinking, Government

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