Quotes About Funding

I hope that many visual journalists will be hired or funded along the way as well - we urgently need their perspectives.

When I came into the job, funding for the humanities at the federal level was being drastically cut. This was the high tide of the new Republican Congress.

We should fund the armies of compassion, we should not discriminate against faith-based programs.

I don't see how we can allow public dollars to fund programs where spite and hate is the core of the message.

Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one's anus to one's mouth.

The county had reduced high-school transportation, eliminated all middle school sports, and was seeking $77 million more from the state for the year's English Language Learners instruction.

All entrepreneurs get strapped for cash. Private equity and other sources of funding will buy into the company. But many don't buy into the dream and end up driving the entrepreneur away. "We don't want to let that entrepreneurial dream disappear when they become part of our twenty-billion-dollar business," Long says.

Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

As our leaders in Washington confront tough decisions about our budget priorities, I urge them to continue federal funding for public broadcasting.

This is his solution: He said all we need to do is take your tax dollars, send them to Washington, have Washington take out its cut, having Washington then send it back to the states, have the states then go out and hire public employees. Does that make sense to you? Is that how to get the economy moving?

I'm angry when we have to use state dollars to fill holes in our low-income heating assistance program because there isn't enough support from Washington.

Part of Washington keeping its promises is a focus on directing more dollars into our local classrooms.

This emergency spending measure is certainly only the beginning, since we here in Washington will continue to work closely with the president and emergency agencies to ensure they continue receiving the funding they need.

People's taxes spent on servicing our national debt, instead of funding public services. This isn't just a waste - it's also a risk.

The Australian Government's decision to take on the dominant funding role for the entire public hospital system is designed to: end the blame game; eliminate waste; and to shoulder the funding burden of the rapidly rising health costs of the future.

There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we're probably wasting a great deal of homeland security money trying to be politically correct, when we really need to make sure that our cities get the money they need.

There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.

We cannot continue to ask the brave men and women of our Armed Forces to put their lives on the line to protect our country while we jeopardize their safety by failing to ensure that Defense Department funds are not siphoned off to warlords in Afghanistan.

Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.

Utah has benefited from setting smart tax policy. That said, public finding is dynamic enough that we cannot just set the tax policy and presume that it does not require continual review and adjustment.

When we cannot find enough extra money for policing, yet we are having huge sums to other countries in aid, it is time to start a serious conversation.

In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.

If I had a weak ego, and doubts about this, the first genome would not yet have been completed with US and UK government funding.

I never talk about anything Hollywood or about politics. I will talk about how concerned I am about funding for Planned Parenthood, and how very sad it makes me when I see anything about children being separated from their parents.