Funding Quotes - Page 3

• Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.

  Bill Lipinski

  Bridges, Long, Gaps

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• As a Member of the CBC, I will fight tooth and nail to increase funding for programs, such as Ryan White, that were flat funded in the President's budget.

  Corrine Brown

  Fighting, Cbc, White

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• I believe the American people are entitled to some straight talk when it comes to higher education funding.

  Ric Keller

  Believe, People, Education Funding

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• We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.

  Bart Stupak

  Voting, Abortion, Care

  "Democratic Congressman Bart Stupak: Health Care Hero or Villain?". On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. March 05, 2010.

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• House Democrats have tried to increase port security funding on this House floor four times over the last 4 years, and House Republicans have defeated our efforts every single time.

  Dennis Cardoza

  Hypnosis, Years, House

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• While we have made great progress in increasing funding for veterans' benefits, we still have a long way to go in fully meeting the promise to our veterans.

  Sue Kelly

  Our Veterans, Long, Promise

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• Funding and maintaining programs from Head Start to Pell Grants must be a high priority.

  Ed Pastor

  Priorities, Pell Grants, Maintaining

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• We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we added some formula funding.

  Roy Barnes

  School, College, Names

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• We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario.

  Ron Chernow

  Retirement, People, Havens

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

  Norm Dicks

  Art, Appreciate, Approval

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• Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council.

  Michael McCaul

  Rights, Years, Usa

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• Without the funding Amtrak needs to keep operating, we will soon see people that rely on Amtrak to get them to work each day, waiting for a train that isn't coming.

  Corrine Brown

  People, Waiting, Needs

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• My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.

  John Hume

  Children, Father, Support

  "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.

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• Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat.

  Rick Perry

  Children, Cutting, Fixing

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• I don't think religious groups should be allowed to apply for federal funds to start new ministries they have not been doing before the funding was available.

  Jerry Falwell

  Religious, Thinking, Groups

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• 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

  Winning, Race, Firsts

  "Kinky Friedman Talks with Bill O'Reilly About Why He Wants to be Governor of Texas". The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. March 14, 2005.

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• I think it's great that they are getting funding, but it's just too easy. They don't have to work for it. We did it because we had pride, because we loved it.

  Linford Christie

  Athlete, Pride, Thinking

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• We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services.

  Joe Baca

  Jobs, America, Training

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• Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete.

  Linford Christie

  Jobs, Athlete, School

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• I do think actually in this case the government does get credit for funding some of the basic research.

  Steve Case

  Thinking, Government, Doe

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• I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Army, Names

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.277

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• The Internet was developed in large part by U.S. government research funding to develop new communications networks, starting with a network created by the Department of Defense.

  Robin Hayes

  Communication, Government, Defense

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• As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no doubt that Iraq as a country is bankrupt.

  Arlen Specter

  Country, Thinking, Iraq

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• ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Mean, Abortion, Eras

  "A new version of the ERA" by Beth Fouhy, edition.cnn.com. August 25, 1999.

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• I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and very often that works against a film.

  Atom Egoyan

  Thinking, Ghouls, Organization

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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