Quotes About Funding

Anybody who wants to cut the gas tax is going to have to suggest to me how we get the money to repair our roads and bridges.

If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences.

Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be achieved far faster now that interested non-specialists can explore new research autonomously and can also be appealed to directly by scientists.

What props up biological research, at least in the vaunted U.S. of A., involves a situation so deeply imbued with entitlement mentality that it has sunk into institutional corruption.

Art is long, life is short. Unless your funding is f%$ked, in which case all our days are numbered.

The taxpayers cannot be relied upon to support performing arts such as opera. As a taxpayer, I am forced to admit that I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera.

The building of publicly funded stadiums has become a substitue for anything resembling an urban policy.

If your party serves the powerful and well-funded interests, and there's no limit to what you can spend, you have a permanent, structural advantage. We're averaging fifty-dollar checks in our campaign, and trying to ward off these seven- or eight-figure checks on the other side. That disparity is pretty striking, and so are the implications. In many ways, we're back in the Gilded Age. We have robber barons buying the government.

When asked to give his opinion as to why airpower was stillborn in the U.S., with little funding or interest coming from the navy or army, he replied: "Conservatism. . . . You see, the army and the navy are the oldest institutions we have. They place everything on precedent. You can't do that in the air business. You have got to look ahead.

Overall, the United States spent $63 billion of its own money on Iraq's reconstruction throughout the war.

Ese es el problema con los chiflados: se les ocurre una gran idea que funciona de verdad y luego esperan que les financies durante años mientras ellos se dedican a estudiar la topografía de su ombligo.

There may be no better use of taxpayer dollars than in funding the NIH; it is a shining example of something our government does extremely well

A humane research environment for chimpanzees is very, very expensive. I'm sure Miller would have been much happier if we'd locked all the chimps in four-by-five cages. When we lost our funding, we had to shut down the project immediately. This was a terrible loss to science. I can't even begin to tell you. But it also affected Jennie. It was the beginning of the end.

because it's not enough to have a dream—you need financing.

Institutions are increasingly persuaded that political maneuvering is more important than scientific justification in securing federal funds.

That's not the way the government works. You can't just take $1 billion from this program, $1 billion from over here, and then put it toward your pet project.

European civil society and NGOs that petition for favours and influence for their special interests are often themselves funded from E.U. coffers. This creates a system of patronage that encourages self-reinforcing group-think and a cloying sycophancy.

Central aid never comes in one disbursal; it comes in phases.

As a philanthropist, I fund a lot of NGOs.

Every single national park had some component of private philanthropy.

At the end of the day, philanthropy can only ever be an adjunct to what governments provide. And government coffers need to be replenished.

In my experience, the more successful an idea is, the easier it is to fund it. In philanthropy, it's almost harder.

So now, if we don't fund the physical sciences, where will the Next Big Thing come from?

I love period pieces. But it's hard to get money to make costumed dramas, so we'll see.