Quotes About Funding

I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside his own district - with per pupil funds going with him.

What I do like about Donald Trump is that he's not bought by the lobbyists. He put up his own money, funded his own campaign. That means he's nobody's puppet.

Congress has the constitutional responsibility to control the power of the 'purse'.

We've got the power of the purse in the Congress.

We must give scientists the opportunity through funding and time to pursue curiosity-based, long-term, basic-science research.

Entrepreneurs always begin the journey believing that they have the next big idea. They dream of the fame and fortune that awaits them if only they had the funding to pursue it. But the reality is that as the product is built and shared with customers, flaws in their concept are discovered that - if not overcome - will kill the business.

It's possible to fund companies for $100,000 and find out rather quickly whether or not the idea they are pursuing has merit. Scientists now work much faster.

In 2009, I pushed for the creation and funding of early childhood block grants to ensure that more kids enter kindergarten ready to learn. It's really not rocket science: Put kids on the right path at an early age - and keep them there.

Here I am just trying to fund myself to play a sport, but the greater picture is that I'm a female athlete really pushing the envelope for women in sports.

When you're making an independent film, it's like this actor plus this actor equals this funding, this financing. Pull this actor out, this actor is still here but this money's gone. It's this frightening puzzle mosaic that is the world of independent film.

Without the huge budgets, mainstream Bengali cinema falls flat on its face.

All too often in tough economic times, it is the environment that gets left on the cutting room floors of Congress as everyone scraps for limited federal dollars.

By the time we made the discovery in 2015, the National Science Foundation had put close to $1.1 billion into it.

Working in independent cinema is far more frustrating than mainstream because it is difficult to get money to make such films.

Every government has a fixed budget and demands of all sectors have to be fulfilled in that amount.

The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.

We started getting the script to different people and we were in the business of trying to fund it so we could get it off and running, and all the characters and sets designed and everything.

Let the wealthier countries and corporations of the world fund an Emergency Organization.

The reality is that asking the public to fund political campaigns accomplishes nothing. Candidates continue to seek interest-group support through other channels, both financial and in-kind, and corruption problems abound.

For a number of major companies, if you can't access the commercial markets, you can't fund your business. That's a big problem. You can't pay your bills.

Every film is hard to fund.

We can't afford not to fully fund education.

I don't need a strong EPA. I don't need to fund a lot of money there.

I don't go to the federal government and say, 'Fund my program.'