Funding Quotes - Page 4

• The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.

  Joe Lieberman

  Children, School, Promise

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• If each of us is to feel that he or she is valued, this calls for more than public funding.

  Kjell Magne Bondevik

  Feels, Ifs

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• All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year.

  Ann Macbeth

  Art, Years, Battle

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• I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.

  Jon Secada

  Education, Teacher, Cutting

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• The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Government, May, Spirals

  "You've got to have faith". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2004.

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• I will lobby tirelessly in cooperation with other mayors around the country to insure that federal funding for our recently added police officers continues.

  Alan Autry

  Country, Police, Cooperation

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

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• Sing your song; don't let the bastards get you down.

  Garrison Keillor

  Song, Entrepreneur, Best Business

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• Don't be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don't let the bastards get you down.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Business, Entrepreneur, Ability

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• Don't let the bastards get you down.

  Barbara Walters

  Entrepreneur, Best Business, Successful Entrepreneurs

  Barbara Walters (2008). “Audition”, p.297, Vintage

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• I'm not an expert on the ways of Washington [but] it makes no sense to me that we're not funding control of our border.

  Jeb Bush

  Experts, Borders, Way

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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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• Research, in nature’s laboratory, never stops. It explores every possibility. It never lacks funding. It is never demoralized by failed experiments. It cannot be lobbied.

  Verlyn Klinkenborg

  Research, Possibility, Experiments

  Verlyn Klinkenborg (2013). “More Scenes from the Rural Life”, p.110, Princeton Architectural Press

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• I am adamant that we must not cut back on funding of the teaching of the arts in the schools: music, painting, theater, dance, all of it. The great thing about the arts is that the only way you learn how to do it is by doing it.

  David McCullough

  Art, Teaching, School

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Most products are ugly. The harsh reality is that in many of these markets, form follows funding. And that products go where the market takes them.

  Bran Ferren

  Reality, Ugly, Harsh

  "A Conversation About The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly" moderated by Chee Pearlman, www.wired.com. January 01, 2001.

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• If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Team, Ifs

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• Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Luxury, Enlightenment, Needs

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 13, 2011.

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• What liberals mean by 'goose-stepping' or 'ethnic cleansing' is generally something along the lines of 'eliminating taxpayer funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.' But they can't say that, or people would realize they're crazy.

  Ann Coulter

  Art, Crazy, Mean

  Ann Coulter (2003). “Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right”, p.16, Crown Forum

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• Can we please rename The Sandy Relief Bill to the Supplemental Iraq War Funding Bill so the GOP Congress can vote for it?

  John Fugelsang

  War, Iraq, Relief

  FaceBook post by John Fugelsang from Jan 02, 2013

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• We must rely less on spreadsheets and funding formulas and more on common sense.

  Kenny Guinn

  Common Sense, Formulas, Rely

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• The present treatments for brain cancer are not curative. We need new and better treatments. More funding for research. Legislation to improve the research system and to provide better access to care, treatment, and rehabilitation services for all brain tumor survivors.

  Shannon O'Brien

  Cancer, Brain, Needs

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• Im gonna try to pay for CLERKS III myself. As much as I love the crowd-funding model, thats an advancement in indie film that belongs to the next generation of artists. I started on my own dime, and if Im allowed, I should finish on my own dime.

  Kevin Smith

  Artist, Trying, Clerks

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• In January we start saving money, getting out of credit card debt, funding our retirement accounts, and we're doing wonderful. Then, every single year like clockwork, starting in November, all of you fall into this trap that says, 'I have to buy this gift... I can't show up at this party and not have something for everybody.

  Suze Orman

  Retirement, Party, Fall

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• La Raza stands for 'The Race' - and they say so openly. They are a pro-Hispanic organization; I will call them a racist organization. They base their philosophy on race. They advocate for those minorities that fit within the category that they define as drives them. They are apologists for illegal immigrants - and we are funding them with your tax dollars in this administration through earmarks. It is outrageous. It's an in-your-face act on the part of this Congress.

  Steve King

  Philosophy, Race, Organization

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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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• It's a lot of money, but in reality what's important is the kids health. I suppose the day could come where we could walk away from it and figure out a new way for (that) funding.

  Jeff Carter

  Kids, Reality, Important

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