Quotes About Donations

Barack Obama has raised tons of money. That is what he means by being green.

There is no accountability in soft money. None.

If we get the donations, I think we're going to raise a significant amount of money; some will be used for some administered costs, but the public portion of that will go directly into grants.

When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government.

I really get a smile that people think they have a right to even suggest how I give my money away. I have no mandate to give a dime to anybody.

Money in politics is a huge issue.

Everybody says that they're against the special interests. I'm the only one the special interests don't give any money to.

Seventy-seven percent of the people that have given money to Bernie Sanders are people that have given less than 200 bucks. That's a lot of people, folks. That's a lot of enthusiasm.

Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.

People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic.

Money is the mother's milk of politics.

Money and donations are an important part of our political system. They are hard power.

It is my principle never to accept any donations from any government or any foreign funded organisation.

Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.

Independence cannot be real if a nation depends upon gifts.

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges.

While accepting donations, no one looks at the colour of money.

Imgur has always been profitable right from the very beginning, and the only time I ever had to spend money on it was for the initial domain name because as soon as I released it, people liked it so much that they were donating, and so Imgur survived for the first six months just purely on donations.

I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.

St. Faith's, as she called her compound, was financed entirely by donations, some from friends abroad and some from admiring Chinese benefactors.

If you were a boy and a girl and you were in love with each other, really, properly in love, and if you could show it, then the people who run Hailsham, they sorted it out for you. They sorted it out so you could have a few years together before you began your donations.

So why had we stayed silent that day? I suppose it was because even at that age—we were nine or ten—we knew just enough to make us wary of that whole territory. It's hard now to remember just how much we knew by then. We certainly knew—though not in any deep sense—that we were different from our guardians, and also from the normal people outside; we perhaps even knew that a long way down the line there were donations waiting for us.

This food won't be wasted; after the offering ceremony, Balinese families are always allowed to eat their own donations to the gods, since the offering is more metaphysical than literal. The way the Balinese see it, God takes what belongs to God - the gesture - while man takes what belongs to man - the food itself.