Funding Quotes - Page 14

• After a brief couple of years in the late '70s, public funding for clean energy technologies dried up and has been on the decline ever since.

  Ted Nordhaus

  Couple, Technology, Years

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Obviously these conditions [violence, poverty] predate the [Barack] Obama presidency and the president has limited ways to dent this violence. But funding war weapons in cities, as opposed to more community policing, is not the solution.

  Julianne Malveaux

  War, Cities, Community

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• My plan to put Social Security in an ironclad lockbox has gotten a lot of attention recently, and I'm glad about that. But I'm afraid that it's overshadowing some vitally important proposals. For instance, I'll put Medicaid in a walk-in closet. I'll put the Community Reinvestment Act in a secured gym locker. I'll put NASA funding in a hermetically sealed Ziploc bag.

  Al Gore

  Community, Important, Bags

  "Campaign 2000's Joke-Off". www.slate.com. October 20, 2000.

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• The Islamic State is able to raise finances through taxation, through theft of banks, and certainly through oil sales from the Omar oilfields in eastern Syria. So right now the question of funding isn't of the essence.

  Vijay Prashad

  Islamic, Essence, Oil

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Despite its potential, the federal government has restricted funding for creating new cell lines - putting the burden of any future research squarely on the shoulders of the private sector. Government's most basic responsibility, however, is the health and welfare of its people, so it has a duty to encourage appropriate scientific investigations that could possibly save the lives of millions.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Responsibility, Government, Cells

  "Future of the Internet: Net Neutrality, the Semantic Web, plus some comments on science by the mayor of New York". "Science Talk" with Steve Mirsky, www.scientificamerican.com. May 31, 2006.

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• The whole country wants civility. Why don't we have it? It doesn't cost anything. No federal funding, no legislation is involved. One answer is the unwillingness to restrain oneself. Everybody wants other people to be polite to them, but they want the freedom of not having to be polite to others.

  Judith Martin

  Country, Freedom, Equality

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• If they were going to go to London or to the UK to find out how health care is, national health care doesn't work, all they have to do is go to the Soviet Union to find out how communism and socialism didn't work, but it hasn't dissuaded them from trying it here because they think the only thing that hasn't happened is the right people haven't tried it with the proper funding.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• As a cornerstone of my policy, we will substantially expand public-private partnerships to maximize the amount of investment and funding that is available for space exploration and development.

  Donald Trump

  Space, Development, Investment

  "Donald Trump’s campaign has become one big airing of grievances". www.washingtonpost.com. October 27, 2016.

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• I will cancel every illegal Obamacare executive order. I will cancel all federal funding to sanctuary cities. Out.

  Donald Trump

  Order, Cities, Obamacare

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Bernie Sanders talks about socialism in Scandinavia, and he's correct to point to the huge victories the working class has won there through struggle, such as socialized medicine, free college education, and paid family leave. But if you talk to working people in Sweden or Norway today, you will find out that many of those past gains have been eroded and some virtually eliminated, including massive under-funding of healthcare and other public services and a return to for-profit systems that are unaffordable to working class people.

  Kshama Sawant

  Struggle, Past, College

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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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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• 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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• ...a vocal minority of scientists so mistrusts the models and the complex fragmentary data, that some claim that global warming is a hoax. They have made public statements accusing other scientists of deliberate fraud in aid of their research funding. Both sides are now hurling personal epithets at each other, a very bad development in Earth sciences.

  Joanne Simpson

  Data, Research, Development

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• Australians just don't see that many Australian films, but it's also our responsibility as filmmakers and the responsibility of the funding bodies to remember that audiences want to be entertained, and people are entertained in lots of different ways.

  Georgina Haig

  Responsibility, People, Different

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

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• ISIS simply do not have ideological, theological, or popular support. And this is a criminal organization that is funding their criminality with things like drug trade and selling oil.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Isis, Organization, Oil

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The United States has more people living in poverty than at almost any time in the modern history of our country. I believe that in a democratic, civilized society none of our people should be hungry or living in desperation. We need to expand Social Security, not cut it. We need to increase funding for nutrition programs, not cut them.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Believe, Cutting

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• One problem with politics is that it is a zero sum game, i.e. politicians argue how to cut the pie smaller and smaller, by reshuffling pieces of the pie. I think this is destructive. Instead, we should be creating a bigger pie, i.e. funding the science that is the source of all our prosperity. Science is not a zero sum game.

  Michio Kaku

  Zero, Cutting, Thinking

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• No matter where you are on politics, I think it is wonderful to see candidates funding campaigns not by talking to a very small number of very rich people, but by reaching out to a very large number of citizens.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, Small Numbers, Talking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Real leaders like Lee Iacocca see vast possibilities and sell their dreams to their companies, their employees, their funding sources, their government and their buying public.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Dream, Real, Government

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• Today most funding for science comes through government. That means that you have to be known to be sympathetic to conclusions that are acceptable to the political classes.

  Doug Casey

  Mean, Class, Government

  Doug Casey (2012). “Totally Incorrect”, p.93, Laissez Faire Books

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• I believe that FEMA plays a key role in working with states and localities to prepare for and respond to natural disasters. As president, I will ensure FEMA has the funding it needs to fulfill its mission.

  Mitt Romney

  Believe, Play, Keys

  "Romney Answers the FEMA Question. Kind Of." by Josh Voorhees, www.slate.com. November 1, 2012.

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• Imagine a senator running for president whose positions included halving the military budget, socializing the medical system, re-regulating the communications and electrical industries, establishing a guaranteed minimum income for all Americans, and equalizing funding for all schools regardless of property valuations - and who promised to fire Alan Greenspan, counseled withdrawal from the World Trade Organization, and, for good measure, spoke warmly of adolescent sexual experimentation. That was Barry Goldwater, conservative.

  Rick Perlstein

  Running, Military, Communication

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• Drug warriors' staunch opposition to needle exchanges to prevent the spread of HIV in addicts delayed the programs' widespread introduction in most states for years. A federal ban on funding for these programs wasn't lifted until 2009. Contrast this with what happened in the U.K. At the peak of the AIDS epidemic in the mid-1990s, the HIV infection rate in IV drug users in the U.K. was about 1%. In New York City, the American epicenter, that figure was 50%. The British had introduced widespread needle exchange in 1986. That country had no heterosexual AIDS epidemic.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Country, New York, Warrior

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