Quotes About Funding

We are here simply to decide whether Congress should take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use them to fund the destruction of human embryos for research.

I happen to know that the State Department furnished the money for my son to return back to the United States,

I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.

A healthy agency does not require relevance to the national agenda so much as the APPEARANCE of relevance to the national agenda," Humphrey explained. "It is perhaps the second-most important tool in ensuring continued funding." "And the most important?" "A friend on the Appropriations committee.

In my section,' he says, 'they were all journalists. We used them to start scandals, or break open political cover-ups. We funded them, and we fed them scoops.

There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.

Increased funding for the Weatherization Assistance Program is a priority for the Bush Administration, and I am pleased that many families in North Carolina will benefit from this increase.

Last year, New York got $200 million. This year, we're going to give them $124 million under this particular program. But last year was an artificially elevated number to make up from the very low grant the year before.

Congress came to see NASA primarily as a jobs program, not an exploratory agency.

The more channels putting money into quality programming the better.

The Violence Against Women Act is personal to me because I know the programs and services it funds are lifesaving.

I would like to see additional funding for entrepreneurial development programs.

All of those loan programs that the federal government administers have flaws.

I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.

I have always advocated for funding and programs that increase our productivity and competitiveness.

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

Budgets that don't balance, public programs that aren't funded, pension funds that are running out of money, schools that aren't funded - How does that help anyone?

I think, in the West, we often discount the arts as nice but not that important. Certainly in America when we cut funding for schools, the arts are the first programs to go. But the arts built the things we need more than anything else: collaboration and co-operation and creativity.

Like so many large companies in the U.S., Monsanto has prospered in large part due to U.S. taxpayer-funded programs and services.

I've benefited enormously from an arts education and a music education in New York. When they cut the programs for funding, I was devastated.

The way our federal agencies are funded, the way the authorizing of these programs are done, I think needs to be completely revamped.

I am a Democrat; I want to fund programs that help people. In order to do that, you need to have revenues and you have revenues when you have jobs.

I'm not someone who funds buildings. That doesn't interest me. I'm more interested in programs.

I don't think we can even compare ourselves to the Japanese or the Chinese players in any way, given their richly-funded programs and their methodical approach to sport.