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Quotes About Funding

We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.
~ Kinky Friedman
Education is largely run at the state level.
~ Mitt Romney
We're really not going to get that much money out of a lottery for a small state like Alabama.
~ Robert J. Bentley
Making movies seemed so impossible as far as getting my ideas funded.
~ Boots Riley
Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department
~ Diane Ravitch
International terrorism needs money to keep going," Villiers said. "A great deal of money, not only for arms, which are expensive, but to fund operations. Drugs are a ready source of that kind of money
~ Jack Higgins
While the visible victims may draw the headlines and attract indignant protests from so-called "pro-life" organizations, the invisible victims are people like you and me who will suffer from diseases that are never cured because funds are being poured down a healthcare sieve in order to maintain permanently-unconscious bodies on complex and costly forms of life support.
~ Jacob M. Appel
As Mrs. Carter in another context observed, there are adequate financial resources available to fund adequate mental health if we simply invest in the right kinds of programs—the ones that we know work—rather than squandering millions and millions of dollars and lives in jails and prisons.
~ Unknown
litigation funders are private companies that raise money from their investors to buy into big lawsuits.
~ John Grisham
They, the lawmakers, were hoodwinked by the insurance companies who are still funding the national tort reform movement, a political crusade that has been wildly successful.
~ John Grisham
And West Nile will never be a major threat; it is not a disease that will ever explode through the human population. Yet it was receiving more research dollars than influenza.
~ John M. Barry
There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.
~ Albert Shanker
The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.
~ Joe Lieberman
I want to fully fund education, No Child Left Behind, special-needs education. And that's how we're going to be more competitive, by making sure our kids are graduating from school and college.
~ John F. Kerry
All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has been suffering. Cuts, cuts, cuts.
~ Bill Cosby
We don't have the money in America to keep paying for the education of everybody else's children from around the world. We simply don't have the financial resources to do that.
~ Mo Brooks
Close Dept. of Education, but don't dismantle public schools.
~ Ron Paul
The only way we can give our children the best education in the world and prepare them for the next century is by funding the programs that serve them.
~ Paul Newman
And, cuts in education, scientific research and the rest are harmful, and they are what are affected by the sequestration.
~ Nancy Pelosi
From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.
~ Tony Campolo
Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is required to provide services at the same level as for any other group with the health conditions of Indigenous Australians.
~ Malcolm Fraser
Clinton brought in billions of dollars, twice the funds raised by Trump, and she also had twice as many campaign offices. But Trump led a movement. His relationship with the electorate was direct, at mass rallies with incendiary speeches.
~ Manuel Castells
Congress still preserved its constitutionally mandated power of the purse.
~ Unknown
The United States made no secret of its desire to have the House of Saud bankroll Osama bin Laden's Afghan war against the Soviet Union during the 1980s, and Riyadh and Washington together contributed an estimated $3.5 billion to the mujahideen.5 However, U.S. and Saudi participation went far beyond this.
~ John Perkins