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• As the GAO report recognizes, the long-term health of our forests relies on additional fuel reduction options and funding to reduce the risks that catastrophic fire poses to our nation's ecosystems, communities and federal budgetary resources.

  Greg Walden

  Fire, Ecosystems, Long

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• One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Change, Transition, Might

  "'Why Not Have Our Own World?'". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July 2005.

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• The State Energy Program, it provides grants to States and directs funding to State energy offices. The States use these grants to address their energy priorities, program funding to adopt emerging renewable energy and energy-efficient technologies.

  Rosa DeLauro

  Technology, Office, Priorities

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• Nonetheless, the research budgets of the Department of Defense are under enormous stress-and they are extremely important because they support more than 40 percent of all federal funding for engineering schools across the country. So the threat was and is real.

  Charles M. Vest

  Country, Stress, Real

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• Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition.

  Charles M. Vest

  Awards, Pell Grants, Tuition

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• Especially today, given the tight fiscal situation that many States and localities face, the use of transportation facilities that pay for themselves without additional Federal funding is essential.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Faces, Essentials, Use

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• Funding privatized accounts with Social Security dollars would not only make the program's long term problems worse, but many believe it represents a first step toward undermining the program's fundamental goals.

  Patty Murray

  Believe, Long, Goal

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• I'm very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.

  Nancy Reagan

  Grateful, Cells, President

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• I am opposed to both cloning and the destruction of human embryos and adamantly opposed to funding of embryonic stem cell research.

  Sandy Adams

  Cells, Cloning, Research

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• Increased funding for the Weatherization Assistance Program is a priority for the Bush Administration, and I am pleased that many families in North Carolina will benefit from this increase.

  Richard Burr

  Priorities, North Carolina, Benefits

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• Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

  George W. Bush

  Massachusetts, Enough, Education Funding

  George W. Bush during Presidential Debate at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, www.npr.org. October 13, 2004.

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• There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.

  Anne Campbell

  Pages, Students, Education Funding

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• Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Issues, Groups, Needs

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

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• We have at least 125 communities in Arizona at risk from wildfire, not because of review processes or litigation delays but because of a lack of federal funding on the ground to actually begin the projects.

  Janet Napolitano

  Community, Risk, Delay

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• In a prime-time address, President Bush said he backed limited federal funding for stem cell research. That's right, the President said, this is a quote, the research could help cure brain diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and whatever it is I have.

  Conan O'Brien

  Alzheimer's, Cells, Brain

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• Our nation has kept faith with its veterans. Funding for veterans healthcare and benefits is strong, and has increased more than 75 percent in the last decade.

  Steve Buyer

  Strong, Benefits, Lasts

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

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Thinking, Cells, Research

  "Back on trail, Elizabeth Edwards pushes stem-cell funding". www.cnn.com. March 26, 2007.

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• I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

  Rita Dove

  Art, Optimistic, Perspective

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• Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Teacher, Talking, Priorities

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• In my opinion, the president is right to address future funding, even though Social Security will show a surplus through 2018 and will not run out of funds until 2042.

  Nick Clooney

  Running, Hype, President

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• My Rainforests Project ... has three main elements. Firstly, to determine how much funding the rainforest countries need to re-orientate their economies so that the trees are worth more alive than dead.

  Prince Charles

  Country, Tree, Three

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• This remains a very important opportunity for the American people to have their day in court against big tobacco and its marketing practices. I urge Congress to provide the funding to allow the lawsuit to move forward, and not to shield the tobacco industry from the consequences of its actions.

  William J. Clinton

  Moving Forward, Opportunity, Practice

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

  Nigel Calder

  Government, Trying, Scientist

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• So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Silly, Technology

  "The Future of Computing Power (Fast, Cheap, and Invisible)" by Michio Kaku, bigthink.com.

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

  Jenny McCarthy

  Government, Epidemics, Autism

  "Preventing Another Generation of Children With Autism" by Jenny McCarthy, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2012.

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