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• Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.

  Bob Barr

  Order, Requirements, Accepting

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• Bill Clinton kept funding Star Wars. He took the biggest military budget to Congress in history. He routinely bombed Iraq, and he kept the barbaric sanctions in place. He's really played his part. The George W. Bush gang has taken it just a little further.

  John Pilger

  Stars, Military, War

  Source: progressive.org

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• There was a time when the women of Afghanistan - at least in Kabul - were out there. They were allowed to study, they were doctors and surgeons, walking free, wearing what they wanted. That was when it was under Soviet occupation. Then the United States starts funding the mujahideen. Reagan called them Afghanistan's "founding fathers." It reincarnates the idea of "jehad," virtually creates the Taliban.

  Arundhati Roy

  Father, Doctors, Ideas

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Since Reagan, it's almost impossible to get funding for research on sexual pleasure. You can find sexual behavior research, but not sexual pleasure. And let alone lesbian or homosexual sexuality.

  Naomi Wolf

  Research, Impossible, Behavior

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Conservative and liberal politicians alike now spend millions waging wars around the globe, funding the largest military state in the world, providing huge tax benefits to the ultrarich and major corporations, and all the while draining public coffers, increasing the scale of human poverty and misery, and eliminating all viable public spheres - whether they be the social state, public schools, public transportation or any other aspect of a formative culture that addresses the needs of the common good.

  Henry Giroux

  Military, War, School

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Being here in Detroit, our public education in this city is - it's shocking. And the oversight of it and the oversight of the teachers and the funding is nonexistent, and the priority that's put on it is so low.

  Mitch Albom

  Teacher, Cities, Priorities

  "Non-Politicians Talking Politics: Sports Writer Mitch Albom On 2016 Election". Interview with Scott Simon, publicradioeast.org. October 22, 2016.

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• Every time you have an opportunity of opening a school, its fee and funding is really relatively small in comparison with the big expenditure, which is basically quote unquote defense. I think if there were fees, progress could be very much faster. But for that we need not only the government in different countries to understand it but the society to put pressure on it, the parents to understand that their desire to have their children educated can actually be realized, and it could make a dramatic difference.

  Amartya Sen

  Country, Children, School

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• As a result of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, American democracy is being undermined by the ability of the Koch brothers and other billionaire families. These wealthy contributors can literally buy politicians and elections by spending hundreds of millions of dollars in support of the candidates of their choice. We need to overturn Citizens United and move toward public funding of elections so that all candidates can run for office without being beholden to the wealthy and powerful.

  Bernie Sanders

  Running, Brother, Powerful

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• In Canada, we have a very good structure of supporting film through a number of government-sponsored initiatives, such as the tax credit and other grants. The northern part of Ontario has started its own funding. They were really happy to sponsor us, so they've been very supportive and put up half the budget for this film. They'd like us to come back and do more films.

  Alfons Adetuyi

  Government, Numbers, Supportive

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I hope that there will be no particular need for us to attract external funding. It is worth noting that despite the fact the turnover is smaller now we are still maintaining a trade surplus.

  Vladimir Putin

  Needs, Maintaining, Facts

  Source: thesaker.is

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• We need additional funding for more U.S. combat brigades in Europe. NATO needs to continue to modernize. It is starting to show with the Russians but these exercises are central to show that the alliance is firm, especially as the E.U. starts to have some weakness on the economic front.

  Michael Leiter

  Exercise, Europe, Weakness

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I think it's important we continue to find new ways for start-up businesses to get access to funding, mentorship and business advice.

  Richard Branson

  Thinking, Advice, Important

  "'Our obsession with ownership is at a tipping point': As he gives £1m to UK start-ups Richard Branson reveals why he's backing the sharing economy". Interview with Eleanor Lawrie, www.dailymail.co.uk. June 30, 2016.

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• I’m very excited about all the offers and interest and support pouring in through crowd-funding, and about having a lovely gap coming up when I’ll finally be able to sit down with books and scripts and talk to my partners about how we take the company forward.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Book, Support, Lovely

  ""The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. December 10, 2013.

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• Other than vaccines and finding a cure, most funding goes toward putting people on treatment. That's completely valid and I understand that, but it's never how we're going to stop AIDS.

  Charlize Theron

  Vaccines, People, Aids

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Generally risk-averse, specialist translation imprints have also hollowed out a fairly comfortable niche for themselves: they get ninety percent of the profits for ten percent of the work, often largely funding their operations - and their salaries - through grants that they don't even apply for. If it wasn't for publicly-funded arts bodies and organizations such as PEN, I wouldn't have been able to work on either [Abdellatif] Laâbi or [ Rashid ] Boudjedra.

  Andre Naffis-Sahely

  Art, Organization, Risk

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The billionaires and their super PACs increasingly control the American political process. This is not democracy. This is not what brave Americans fought and died to defend. This is oligarchy. This is government of the few, by the few and for the few. We must overturn Citizen United and move to public funding of elections.

  Bernie Sanders

  Moving, Government, Brave

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• Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition technology.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Technology, Government, Degrees

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• Reductionist ideology not only hinders biologists from thinking adequately about the phenomena we wish to understand: it has two important social consequences: it serves to relocate social problems to the individual rather than exploring the societal roots and determinants of a phenomenon; and second, it diverts attention and funding from the social to the molecular.

  Steven Rose

  Thinking, Two, Roots

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• When Vladimir Putin runs up against American power and American criticism and American leadership that reminds him of what Russia isn`t, when he runs up against people who he worries are funding his dissidents or supporting protests against him, when he runs up against criticism of the way he runs his own country, what he`s running up against is the State Department.

  Rachel Maddow

  Running, Country, Russia

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The Australian Government's decision to take on the dominant funding role for the entire public hospital system is designed to: end the blame game; eliminate waste; and to shoulder the funding burden of the rapidly rising health costs of the future.

  Kevin Rudd

  Government, Games, Decision

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and make it clear that the Congress and state legislatures do have the ability and the power to regulate and get corporate funding out of political campaigns.

  Bernie Sanders

  Political, Citizens United, Campaigns

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.sanders.senate.gov. February 5, 2013.

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• The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure.

  Charles Schumer

  Matter, Administration, Domes

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• If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the best public schools, there would be a national outcry - and yet this is precisely what the Olympics represents in terms of sports funding.

  Will Self

  Sports, School, Government

  "Not in my manor" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2006.

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• The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession and declining tax revenues.

  James Wolcott

  Country, Art, School

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• In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Teacher, School, Mean

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