Quotes About Fundraising

Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.

There are all kinds of great things that megachurches and successful fundraising appeals can allow you to do, especially in terms of overseas charity work, and so on. I'm just arguing that American Christians need to recognize the temptations that can expose you to as well.

It would be a lot cheaper for me not to have to raise tens of millions of dollars to elect progressive candidates who will raise my taxes.

There are a lot of people whose livelihoods depend on keeping lots of conservatives terrified and ill-informed. The groups that exist to raise funds raise more funds when they endorse the crazier candidate.

tuition, lots of fund-raising and often

I love libraries and am their huge supporter, speaking at them and raising funds whenever I can.

Gates expressed Rockefeller's disappointment at Harper's failure to raise money from outside sources to reduce the deficit.

For instance, in 1886, he pledged $30,000 to Morehouse, hoping that it would prove the catalyst for a $150,000 fund drive.

Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.

One of my dreams in life is to do fund-raising for the youth.

Most elected officials don't want you to know about the world of political fundraising because they fear that it paints an unflattering portrait of public life.

Direct mail was the basis of a lot of new Right organizations in the '70s and early '80s, and it actually led to the downfall of the majority of them. It's very expensive, and you end up putting your organization more and more in debt if you're not successful with it.

Pence is a fan of fundraising and does enjoy doing it.

Between the fundraising, being away from family, the environment of hyperpartisanship, Washington is really stressing people out.

I've always done party building and party fundraising.

Fundraising is a long and distracting process, and by the end of it, all you want to do is go back to building the product that you're working on.

I was the head of fundraising for the Women's March, and I chose not to take money from corporations.

I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign but it couldn't be worked out.

When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.

I think fundraising has a lot to do with political viability.

Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.

The first thing I learned is that campaigns are about money. I had this romantic idea that campaigns were about law and debates and so forth, which is just not true. It's about money.

If you take a guy like a Barack Obama, who's raised millions of dollars from the most donors in the history of this nation, it suggests that there's a deep and profound hunger for a new politics to come forth. And a guy like him has been able to mobilize that and to reach certain parts of the hip-hop generation.

It's very difficult for me to do fund raising for my own organization if I'm working for other companies because sponsors will say, 'Well, hey, man, if she's doing a ballet for Ballet Theatre, we'll give money to Ballet Theatre.'