Fundraiser Quotes

• Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family.

  Edward Norton

  Running, Fun, School

  Interview with Teena Apeles, www.askmen.com.

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• You now have six-year campaigns for the Senate - you never stop running. It's not uncommon for a member of the Senate to have a fundraising breakfast, a fundraising lunch and a fundraising dinner, and then when the Senate breaks for the week to go home, more fundraisers. And that's driven by the cost of campaigning.

  Evan Bayh

  Running, Home, Years

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• Chefs, as a whole, say yes to any project, fundraiser, or tasting because they have such a generous spirit.

  Charlie Trotter

  Generous Spirit, Fundraising, Chef

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• No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Life, Leadership, Motivational Sports

  Calvin Coolidge (1920). “Law and Order”

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• Giving opens the way for receiving.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Receiving Love, Fundraising, Giving

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2016). “The Game of Life and How to Play It”, p.116, Hay House, Inc

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• Be the change you want to see in your networks

  James H. Fowler

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Be the trouble you want to see in the world.

  Joey Comeau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "A Softer World". Webcomic by Joey Comeau,

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• Build what you want to see in the world.

  Jack Dorsey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Life is an echo. What you send out comes back.

  Zig Ziglar

  Life, Echoes, Reap

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Jul 02, 2013

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• Be the change you want to see.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Barack Obama said today that politics has become too gummed up by money and influence ... and then he had to leave to attend a fundraiser.

  Jay Leno

  Today, Influence, Said

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• You want to know who owns America? A few at the top. And they've got one thing on their mind. No change. Look at Obama, all that hope and promise. No change. He went to Wall Street, had a fundraiser—$35,800 a ticket—and you know who the host was? Goldman friggin' Sachs.

  Buddy Roemer

  Wall, America, Promise

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• Every Valentine's Day, the student council sponsered a holiday fundraiser by selling roses that would be delievered in class. The roses came in four colors:white, yellow, red, pink, and the subtleties of thier meaning were parsed and analyzed by the female population to no end. Mimi had always understood it thus:white for love, yellow for friendship, red for passion, and pink for a secret crush.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Crush, Valentine, Passion

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• Mitt Romney speaking to a $50,000-a-plate Republican fundraiser says he doesn't have to worry about the 47 per cent of Americans who don't pay tax. He was not counting on the smart phone recording his speech and then posting it on YouTube.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Smart, Phones, Worry

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• The top group of fundraisers for Mr. Obama raised $457,834 for his 2008 campaign - and were approved for federal grants and loans of $11.4 billion, according to the Government Accountability Institute. Selling access to the federal treasury has been a great way for Democrats to raise campaign funds. Since 1989, according to an analysis by Gateway Pundit, big donors have provided $416 million more in direct contributions to Democrats than Republicans.

  Jack Kelly

  Government, Accountability, Analysis

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• I have a cotillion event. Some yacht-club charity fundraiser thingy. Whitney is insisting, and Kit took her side.” Three wide smiles. “Oh shut up.

  Kathy Reichs

  Events, Three, Charity

  Kathy Reichs (2011). “Seizure: A Virals Novel”, p.35, Penguin

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• I hold a little fundraiser every day. Its called going to work.

  Stephen Colbert

  Funny, Work, Littles

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• George Bush calls his biggest fundraisers Rangers and Pioneers. But today, we stand together, and we call ourselves, simply, Americans.

  Howard Dean

  Pioneers, Today, Rangers

  Official Declaration of Candidacy, www.4president.org. June 23, 2003.

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• There was this moment in 2003 when I was asked to do a fundraiser for someone who was speaking out against the Iraq war when nobody was. I said, "I will do a fundraiser for that guy." And then my friend John Hall, from the band Orleans...He ran for Congress in my district and won. I did a bunch of fundraisers for him.

  Dar Williams

  War, Iraq, Guy

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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• We're not out holding fundraisers in the Hamptons or in Beverly Hills.

  Jill Stein

  Beverly Hills, Hills, Hamptons

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• I think the fascinating - several different pieces of the [Donald] Trump psyche revealed by what happened today and one of them is this decision not to hold more fundraisers.

  Michelle Goldberg

  Thinking, Decision, Different

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• People who came to the clinics or came to the fundraiser knew what was happening in their state but didn't realize the profundity of what was happening all over the place. But the third thing [was] that at every single clinic I went to, somebody who worked there - it could have been the doctor, it could have been the receptionist - said, "Thank you for coming, no one ever comes." And it broke my heart...I've used these services, I've had an abortion, I got to be where I am because of access to making choices to have the life I wanted.

  Lizz Winstead

  Heart, Doctors, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I had gone back home to finish my book in 2011, and that's when these laws really started coming into states all across the country. I needed to get back to Brooklyn, so I had my two dogs and I rented a van and I called up Planned Parenthood and I said, "I have to drive back to Brooklyn. I've got two dogs and a van. What if I did some fundraisers for you along the way?" And they were like, "Who are you?" I was like, "No, this is a super good idea."

  Lizz Winstead

  Country, Dog, Book

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I had the opportunity to speak at a recent fundraiser [for Hillary Clinton] and felt extremely honored that she would allow someone as, well, untraditional as me to stand at her podium.

  Chrissy Teigen

  Opportunity, Speak, Clinton

  Source: www.glamour.com

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