Quotes About Funding

Anti-capitalism is nothing new in Hollywood. From 'Wall-E' to 'Avatar,' corporations are routinely depicted as evil. The contradiction of corporate-funded films denouncing corporations is an irony capitalism cannot just absorb, but thrive on. Yet this anti-capitalism is only allowed within limits.

The answer to New Orleans's levee woes is painfully obvious: money and willpower.

Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.

Theoretical physics hardly requires any research funding, so I never felt the need. The overall government and institutional support has been good enough for my work.

I've enjoyed programming on NPR, but 'we're broke' and therefore all spending must be reduced.

I do think there are more and more entrepreneurs all the time that think big. Those are the people we should be finding and funding. Most of them will fail, but the ones who succeed will change the world, and that is progress.

We have a simple formula here in Miami. First, we want to reduce taxes to the lowest point possible. Second, we want to increase police funding, not decrease it. And third we want to have the best quality of life of any city in the world.

Planned Parenthood has amassed a Third Reich-style death count completely legally and while pocketing half a billion dollars a year to do so.

The Caribbean is all Third World islands and it's very tough to raise the money for sports.

We need to be very thoughtful about how we propose to spend the money that NASA does have for space exploration. And we need to be clear that there's the human spaceflight part of NASA, and there's the science space part of NASA, and there's also aeronautics. Those are all very different things that NASA does.

Enhancing revenues will help us improve education and solve our infrastructure problems.

Why would someone want to start a museum in New York City when the Whitney and the Modern were already there? The answer was that the bigger museums were ill-equipped to respond quickly to radical or sudden changes in the arts, in part because exhibitions had to be scheduled years ahead of time to allow for securing loans, preparing catalogue, and, most important of all, obtaining funding.

Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies.

After a brief couple of years in the late '70s, public funding for clean energy technologies dried up and has been on the decline ever since.

The levels of technology investment in the energy sciences pales compared to the kinds of investment we make in the computer and bio-sciences.

I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.

Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.

I'll lose all my funding and I'll have to close the lab and drive a taxi for a living." "Heaven forbid!" Uncle Theron said in real horror, and Bunny said, "You're going to make me drop out of school and get a job, aren't you. You're going to make me go to work serving raw bloody sirloins in some steakhouse." Kate wondered why they were both contemplating careers they were so unsuited for.

I believe that it is the responsibility of everyone in corporate life to help with the funding of non-profit organizations.

I believe in an America where the separation of Church and State is absolute—where no Catholic prelate would tell the President (should he be a Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote—where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference.

I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my first Jobs was shelving books at a branch of the Chicago Public Library.) Libraries are a pillar of any society. I believe our lack of attention to funding and caring for them properly in the United States has a direct bearing on problems of literacy, productivity, and our inability to compete in today's world. Libraries are everyman's free university.

If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.

The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America.

Five hundred years of conspiracy had left the Prometheus Club unworried about funding.