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Quotes About Funding

What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities, so that head teachers can decide what's truly important, because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.
~ Michael Gove
With no serious downsides, a one-in-three potential benefit for end-stage cancer seems like it would spark further research, right? But who's going to pay for a study of something that can't be patented?
~ Michael Greger
Recent demonstration projects have shown that with some Federal support, a little funding can go a long way toward ensuring that low-income children have access to good oral health care.
~ Michael K. Simpson
Peter Thiel secretly funded a legal battle between Hulk Hogan, a man he didn't even know, and the gossip website Gawker, one of the mainstays of sneering media progressivism. The result was the personal bankruptcy of Gawker's owner and editor and the destruction of the site, a major New Right victory.
~ Unknown
Fund all climate science research to include the skeptics. This branch of science has become completely politicized.
~ Michael Savage
350.org, the Sierra Club, NRDC, and EDF were all accepting money from fossil fuel billionaires Steyer and Bloomberg.99
~ Michael Shellenberger
What is inappropriate is accepting fossil fuel funding while attacking others for doing the same. Even less appropriate is lying about it.
~ Michael Shellenberger
Well, I think one thing that we can do, quite simply, is to withhold funding from Planned Parenthood. It's the largest provider of abortion in the United States. They are a billion-dollar industry. As a matter of fact, the head of Planned Parenthood in Illinois said that Planned Parenthood wants to be the LensCrafters of Big Abortion.
~ Michele Bachmann
Predictably, the national broadcaster—a viper's nest of socialists, tree-huggers and ugly, barren females—had seized on the survey, exhuming one of its bleeding-heart ideologues to moan about funding cuts to education.
~ Unknown
I thought it was funny that the WGS thought prostitutes, porn stars, and strippers should be funded but conservatives should not---all because of concerns over 'integrity'.
~ Unknown
I had a hunch. Officially, scientists don't work on hunches. We work on hypotheses and observations and plenty of evidence. Hunches don't get you research funding, tenure at your university, or access to the world's largest telescopes. But a hunch was all I had.
~ Mike Brown
This president has said this has to be a priority for our nation, protecting our food supply from terrorist acts, so he continues to provide the funding that is necessary.
~ Mike Johanns
A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought.
~ Mikhail Baryshnikov
To go somewhere and say: "I have this really terrific movie, but I need some . . . money" - Good luck!
~ Morgan Freeman
Probe should be started against the media that has reported about rising Covid cases in schools to dig out its actual source of funding the program and the culprit behind it.
~ Unknown
The main drawback of the government sponsored transcontinentals was that they were not funded through market savings but instead government loans and land grants, and were thus not disciplined by profit and loss. By granting subsidies, the government diverted resources away from where consumers would have spent their money (and hence valued more highly).
~ Murray N. Rothbard
In recent years, something we now all depend on—the Internet, originally ARPANET—was developed as a complex collaboration of universities, government agencies, and industry, funded largely by the Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency.
~ Naomi Oreskes
The network of right-wing foundations, the corporations that fund them, and the journalists who echo their claims have created a tremendous problem for American science. A recent academic study found that of the fifty-six "environmentally skeptical" books published in the 1990s, 92 percent were linked to these right-wing foundations (only thirteen were published in the 1980s, and 100 percent were linked to the foundations).
~ Naomi Oreskes
A police force is about political influence, and it always has been. If I can't get up the home secretary's arse and get you the funding that you're pissing away, you won't be in a position to solve your crimes, any of you.
~ Unknown
The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
Why does the United States spend more than $20 billion a year on farm programs but less than $4 billion a year on education and early care for children in the critical first two years of life? Are corn and soybeans really a higher priority for America's future than our children?
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
One of the most infuriating elements of American myopia about investing in at-risk kids is that politicians often insist that they don't have the funds to pay for social services--but they somehow find the resources to pay for prisons later on.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
Philanthropists and donors traditionally haven't been sufficiently interested in women's rights abroad, giving money instead to higher brow causes such as the ballet or art museums. There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of women.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
In the United States, we rely on local property taxes to fund public schools, so rich suburbs enjoy first-rate public schools that are a pipeline to the best universities, and underprivileged children suffer in third-rate schools with, often, the worst teachers.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof