Quotes About Donations

Yeah, I get a lot of donations. It's a lot. I'm getting money all the time.

I gave Mitt Romney some donations for his campaign because he was a friend, and friendship came first. I've always been a Democrat, and I've had different views than Mitt Romney. I'm not Mitt Romney, and I think people will realize that when they meet me out there.

Running on corporate-PAC money is a huge liability.

It was going all wrong at my college interview until I nonchalantly asked "Do you need any large donations for new buildings?"

During the same period, Trump also sent four-figure donations to California attorney general Kamala Harris, a Democrat. Her office ultimately took no action against Trump University even as it went after other for-profit educational entities.)

There can be no clearer indication of how undemocratic the way we finance campaigns is than the fact that only one-quarter of 1% donate $200 or more, and only one-tenth of 1% gives $1,000 or more.

Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.

As soon as we find a cure, we will utilize any of the donations to go toward providing medication to those who can't afford it. That is my goal.

how the Clintons ripped off literally billions of dollars that had been donated to help those left alive after the devastating Haiti earthquake.

From 1968 to 2001, US per capita incomes doubled. During that same time, the average church member's giving fell from 3.10 percent to 2.66 percent of their total income.

350.org, the Sierra Club, NRDC, and EDF were all accepting money from fossil fuel billionaires Steyer and Bloomberg.99

filantropía basada en datos concretos sobre impactos y resultados, y no en anécdotas, pasiones e intuiciones, para orientar las donaciones

Africa can't always keep living on donations and charities, or to keep begging on the developed countries, as every free thing has got its invisible cost attached to it.

Donations and charities are the vaccines against the disease of poverty. But they aren't effective, because free stuff isn't meant to last any longer. Self-reliance is the only solution and the only cure.

We are first among the nations in per capita giving: it would take three Frenchmen, seven Germans, or fourteen Italians to equal the charitable donations of one American.

The following month, the Guggenheim announced that after a two-decade relationship in which the Sacklers had donated $9 million, the museum would no longer accept any future donations from the family. The same week, the National Portrait Gallery in London revealed that it had turned down a $1.3 million gift from the Sacklers. Two days after the National Portrait Gallery, the Tate announced that it would not "seek or accept further donations from the Sacklers.

The Sacklers had given away hundreds of millions of dollars, and for decades the Sackler name had been associated in the public mind with philanthropy.

While writing this book, I discovered that there is a field of study called "disaster theory." A lot of the work in this area explores self-interested motivations. In the United States, for instance, presidents are more likely to declare national disasters during election years, and battleground states get more donations than others; money allocated to address disasters is used as an inducement and a reward.