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Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues. -- Bjorn Lomborg
We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services. -- Joe Baca
There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act. -- Anne Campbell
I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more. -- Jon Secada
Funding and maintaining programs from Head Start to Pell Grants must be a high priority. -- Ed Pastor
Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times. -- Lucy Powell
Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one's anus to one's mouth. -- Jaron Lanier
Can we please rename The Sandy Relief Bill to the Supplemental Iraq War Funding Bill so the GOP Congress can vote for it? -- John Fugelsang
Lawsuits against reverse mortgage companies, including the nation's largest, Financial Freedom Senior Funding, contend that those firms helped pressure older Americans into bad investments. -- Charles Duhigg
Our nation has kept faith with its veterans. Funding for veterans healthcare and benefits is strong, and has increased more than 75 percent in the last decade. -- Steve Buyer
Funding for faith-based charities should] be judged based on performance and results - not religion. Now, if our sin is that our religion can produce the results, then we plead guilty. -- Eugene Rivers
Funding privatized accounts with Social Security dollars would not only make the program's long term problems worse, but many believe it represents a first step toward undermining the program's fundamental goals. -- Patty Murray
Funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even one percent of what is needed. This glaring injustice must be addressed at Copenhagen in December . --
It shouldn't take an emergency for this Administration to deal with the health care needs of our nation's heroes. Funding the VA and our bringing our troops home safely should never be treated as an afterthought. -- John Salazar
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Iran, as we have already discussed, has carried out very, very harmful activities inside Iraq. Funding, trainings, arming and, in some cases, even directing the activities of the special groups associated with the Jaish al-Mahdi and the Sadr Militia. -- David Petraeus
Funding that is focused on the ability to diagnose diseases precisely will just have inestimable value because that's the gate through which precision medicine has to go. Unless you can diagnose the disease precisely, care has to remain in the hands of expensive institutions and expensive caregivers. -- Clayton Christensen
ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else. -- Phyllis Schlafly
The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding -- Daniel Libeskind
The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experience. It's excuses. -- Sarah Lacy
I have always advocated for funding and programs that increase our productivity and competitiveness -- George Allen
This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval. -- Norm Dicks
I'm very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. -- Nancy Reagan
I do think actually in this case the government does get credit for funding some of the basic research. -- Steve Case
Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough. -- George W. Bush
If each of us is to feel that he or she is valued, this calls for more than public funding. -- Kjell Magne Bondevik
The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything. -- Adam McKay
We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning. -- Kinky Friedman
I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can. -- Elizabeth Edwards
There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding. -- Rita Dove
All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year. -- Ann Macbeth
We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion. -- Bart Stupak
We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we added some formula funding. -- Roy Barnes
I don't think religious groups should be allowed to apply for federal funds to start new ministries they have not been doing before the funding was available. -- Jerry Falwell
While we have made great progress in increasing funding for veterans' benefits, we still have a long way to go in fully meeting the promise to our veterans. -- Sue Kelly
In my opinion, the president is right to address future funding, even though Social Security will show a surplus through 2018 and will not run out of funds until 2042. -- Nick Clooney
Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council. -- Michael McCaul
The Internet was developed in large part by U.S. government research funding to develop new communications networks, starting with a network created by the Department of Defense. -- Robin Hayes
Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps. -- Bill Lipinski
As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no doubt that Iraq as a country is bankrupt. -- Arlen Specter
Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads. -- Bobby Scott
Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat. -- Rick Perry
My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments. -- John Hume
I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and very often that works against a film. -- Atom Egoyan
Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to. -- Bobby Scott
State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes. -- Arne Duncan
I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. -- Thomas Jefferson
What liberals mean by 'goose-stepping' or 'ethnic cleansing' is generally something along the lines of 'eliminating taxpayer funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.' But they can't say that, or people would realize they're crazy. -- Ann Coulter
Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding. -- Arlen Specter
Although biodiversity loss continues globally, many countries are significantly slowing the rate of loss by shoring up protected natural areas and the services they provide, and in expanding national park systems with tighter management and more secure funding. -- Helen Clark
Nonetheless, the research budgets of the Department of Defense are under enormous stress-and they are extremely important because they support more than 40 percent of all federal funding for engineering schools across the country. So the threat was and is real. -- Charles Vest
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Illegal killings of elephants are being linked to organized crime and the funding of armed militia groups. Many consumers in Asia do not realize that by buying ivory, they are playing a role in the illegal wildlife trade and its serious consequences. -- Li Bingbing
When you're making an independent film, it's like this actor plus this actor equals this funding, this financing. Pull this actor out, this actor is still here but this money's gone. It's this frightening puzzle mosaic that is the world of independent film. -- Jill Soloway
Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition. -- Charles Vest
During the early days of HootSuite, when social media was still seen as a fad, I made the decision to treat our funding as if it were my personal bank account. That's not to say I blew it on fast cars and fancy dinners. Exactly the opposite. -- Ryan Holmes
U.S. Speedskating has been riddled with problems since when I started my career, and we were always able to look past that. When it came down to performing on the ice, regardless of funding issues, we were always able to make it happen. And that's what it's all about. -- Apolo Ohno
Cash - in savings accounts, short-term CDs or money market deposits - is great for an emergency fund. But to fulfill a long-term investment goal like funding your retirement, consider buying stocks. The more distant your financial target, the longer inflation will gnaw at the purchasing power of your money. -- Suze Orman
In January we start saving money, getting out of credit card debt, funding our retirement accounts, and we're doing wonderful. Then, every single year like clockwork, starting in November, all of you fall into this trap that says, 'I have to buy this gift... I can't show up at this party and not have something for everybody.' -- Suze Orman
I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy. -- Naveen Jain
No funding for Planned Parenthood; protect the unborn. -- Jim DeMint
Transportation funding is a win-win for everyone involved. -- Corrine Brown
Research into endometriosis is as scanty as funding. -- Rose George
No public funding for abortion; it imposes a view. -- Joe Biden
The internet is something created largely by public funding. -- Noam Chomsky
No funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons. -- Jerry Weller
The funding of mobile first companies will increase significantly. -- Keith Teare
We cannot afford to lose the Medicaid funding for low-income women. -- Kay Bailey Hutchison
I would like to see additional funding for entrepreneurial development programs. -- Steve Chabot
Federal funding for cities who consider themselves sanctuary cities should be reduced. -- Mitt Romney
It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts. -- Camille Paglia
Universities charge outrageous prices instead of dipping into their own massive funding. -- Donald Trump
If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities. -- Richard M. Daley
The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding. -- Daniel Libeskind
The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experiences. It's excuses. -- Sarah Lacy
There's a lot of politics over who gets the next allocation of Congressional funding. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
When you commit a serious doping offence you are not eligible for lottery funding. -- John Scott
We must rely less on spreadsheets and funding formulas and more on common sense. -- Kenny Guinn
I'm a little nervous about public funding. It's better than what we got now. -- Mark Shields
One startup I dream of funding is the one that kills the record companies. -- Paul Graham
The Broad research center represents the highest quality model of what Proposition 71 should be funding. -- Robert Klein
If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team. -- T. Boone Pickens
All modeling efforts will inevitably converge on the result most likely to lead to further funding. -- Charlie Martin
Unlike Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, I never voted to provide taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood. -- Ron Paul
Email says that no, it is the governments of Saudi and Qatar that have been funding ISIS. -- Julian Assange
True creative cities produce the legacy of an idea that does what funding cannot do: to foster.. -- Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
President Obama has made maternal health one of the core priorities of U.S. international aid funding. -- Liya Kebede
As a scientist leading a funding agency for autism research, I think of autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder. -- Thomas R. Insel
Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized. -- Tom Peters
To make the peaks higher. [His reason to target philanthropic funding to only the best university science departments.] -- Wickliffe Rose
Full federal funding for presidential libraries should bring with it new rules of control over papers and artifacts. -- Robert Dallek
I will cancel every illegal Obamacare executive order. I will cancel all federal funding to sanctuary cities. Out. -- Donald Trump
Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding. -- Scott Adams
Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense. -- Richard Scaife
I believe the American people are entitled to some straight talk when it comes to higher education funding. -- Ric Keller
I will never buy a fish tank, because I don't believe in supporting the funding of aquatic war machines. -- Jarod Kintz
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Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people. -- Mike Pence
US academic institutions are being bought via funding by biotechnology firms which exert a vice-like grip on the US government. -- Ignacio Chapela
Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing. -- Bob Barr
I believe you [Donald Trump] know politicians better than I do because for 40 years you've been funding liberal Democratic politicians. -- Ted Cruz
I believe that it is the responsibility of everyone in corporate life to help with the funding of non-profit organizations. -- Frederick Lenz
I believe that it is the responsibility of everyone in corporate life to help with the funding of non-profit organizations. -- Frederick Lenz
I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program. -- Dan Maffei
I would never put a movie on YouTube unless the funding was right, or unless YouTube paid for it or something. -- Shane Dawson
From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence. -- Tony Campolo
The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed. -- LeVar Burton
23andMe is pleased to bring public funding to bear on data and research driven by the public - our more than 180,000 customers. -- Anne Wojcicki
This president [Barack Obama] is undermining our military. This president is more interested in funding Planned Parenthood than in funding the military. -- Marco Rubio
I am opposed to both cloning and the destruction of human embryos and adamantly opposed to funding of embryonic stem cell research. -- Sandy Adams
Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system. -- Nigel Calder
I think it's important we continue to find new ways for start-up businesses to get access to funding, mentorship and business advice. -- Richard Branson
I will veto any spending bill that contains funding for Planned Parenthood, facilities that perform abortion and all government family planning schemes. -- Ron Paul
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I believe in public funding of elections, absolutely. But this system iscurrently very antiquated and no longer applies to modern day politics. -- Bernie Sanders
Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform. -- Jenny McCarthy
I believe Nebraskans appreciate the fiscal discipline I've brought to state government, balancing the budget without raising taxes and prioritizing education funding. -- Dave Heineman
Congress passes bills that appropriate money. Congress says, 'We're building this bridge or funding that defense project, and they cost this much.' -- Jay Carney

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