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Quotes About Funding

Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.
~ Ed Rendell
If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries.
~ Wendy Kopp
In the real world, 90% of the money spent on medical research is focused on conditions that are responsible for just 10% of the deaths and disability caused by diseases globally.
~ Peter Singer
Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music.
~ Skitch Henderson
I'm all in favor of getting grants for musicians. Or any other good brand of Scotch.
~ Pepper Adams
Research, in nature's laboratory, never stops. It explores every possibility. It never lacks funding. It is never demoralized by failed experiments. It cannot be lobbied.
~ Verlyn Klinkenborg
The world is over-armed and peace is under-funded.
~ Ban Ki-moon
Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?
~ Ronald Reagan
The Danish experience remains to this day a powerful, though nearly forgotten, lesson on the appropriate government reaction to the challenge of global competition: support and fund, but do not protect.
~ William J. Bernstein
One foundation-backed effort to provide long-acting birth control to teenagers in Colorado helped lower the birthrate among teenagers across the state by a stunning 40 percent from 2009 to 2013, and sharply cut the number of abortions, too. Despite this success, the Colorado legislature refused to provide ongoing funding for the program—at which point a group of private funders stepped in ensure it would continue, including Ben Walton, an heir to the Walmart fortune who lives in Denver.
~ David Callahan
shareholders will only fund the significant investments companies must make in R&D, process improvement, and culture if they see adequate short-term returns on their investments. It's incumbent on leaders to pursue growth and deliver quarterly results.
~ David Cote
Most importantly, Hindu groups must cultivate and follow their own intellectual kshatriyas, which not only includes listening to them but promoting their views and funding their projects.
~ David Frawley
The reports that invariably seek to discredit alternative methods of healing are invariably produced by those funded by and answerable to Big Pharma. They are simply there to destroy the opposition and they are in a real panic now with so many people rejecting the scalpel and the drug and using alternative forms of treatment.
~ David Icke
You just don't get funding to go out and find God. Even if you did, you'd have to first define what you mean by 'God.
~ Stephen LaBerge
Tax dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not.
~ Sarah Palin
Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.
~ Jenny McCarthy
Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.
~ Nigel Calder
The government should not be in the business of funneling money for social services through any faith-based organization
~ Susan Jacoby
Governments cannot assume or expect that the ECB will always facilitate their funding independently of the achievement of their fiscal and other policy objectives.
~ Lucas Papademos
Governments have budgets but no money, companies have money but no budgets.
~ Shimon Peres
Email says that no, it is the governments of Saudi and Qatar that have been funding ISIS.
~ Julian Assange
It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.
~ Roger Wicker
As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
~ Theodore Bikel
Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.
~ Elon Musk