Quotes About Donations

Washington has been using tax extenders to extort donations for more than thirty years.

Washington has been using tax extenders to extort donations for more than thirty years. Lobbyists have likened the tax extenders ploy to Lucy pulling the football away from poor Charlie Brown in the last second.

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!

Many young people don't vote because they feel unwelcome and irrelevant, and that's the system's fault... As much as MTV tries to get them to vote, politicians don't include young voters because young voters don't donate money.

Philanthropy was rediscovered in America. There is a particular relationship with charity that is unlike the stealthy, apologetic palming of donations from the Old World,

Investments are a real partnership, with an expected return; donations are a gesture made as a result of ethical, religious, or political passions.

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits

Rarely do political contributions lead to direct quid pro quo transactions - donations for votes - and those that cross this line normally get caught.

If people are going to donate huge sums of money to influence elections, we have the right to know who is donating, and this will also play a key role in helping to fight off foreign influence in our elections.

Only 9 percent of evangelicals tithe to their churches. • Eight hundred new church plants survive each

I started off with making personal donations and eventually set up my own foundation, VTCY Foundation, now known as Better Malaysia Foundation. My contributions are also made through companies that I own.

As a philanthropist, I fund a lot of NGOs.

Congressmen spend between five and seven hours a day on the phone, begging for money.

The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.

People talk about Wall Street greed, but one of the things many people don't understand is that there are a lot of organizations that have been the recipient of largess from the same Wall Street.

I do things - whether it's donations or events for good causes or giving back to my community - for the right reason: because I want to. Because it's the best thing to do. I wanna help someone else out. As far as all the attention for it, that's cool if I get it, but I'm not doing it for that reason. Stuff like that doesn't really phase me.

A lot of people are happy to give money to charities but are wary of giving through taxes because they feel it doesn't produce any value.

The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.

It is important for American congregations to hold their churches accountable for what their money does in Africa.

I am a full-time Research Fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a small 501(c)(3) public charity supported primarily by individual donations.

I have a lot of supporters but they are not well organized. They send me donations but for the most part, their commitment is not really serious.

We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.

I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.

Donors need to know what their money is being used for.