Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adolf Galland

"He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense.

Seth Shostak

The total funding of SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) in the U.S. is 0.0003 percent of the tax monies spent on health and human services. And it's not even tax money. The SETI Institute's hunt for signals is funded by donations.

We'd love to be able to fund more.

We don't know until we know what we are doing there. We can't come up with funds until you know what you want.

There is medium- and longer-term value in there for the government so they would be smarter holding onto it and placing it in the Future Fund if they didn't need the funds immediately.

The projects we fund are in conjunction with the administration of the two schools, the superintendent and the school board. We're also trying to work with the Parent Teacher Association. It makes no sense to be in competition, and we're much better (now) at doing that.

Camille Paglia

It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.

Rachel Corrie

I've had this underlying need to go to a place and meet people who are on the other end of the portion of my tax money that goes to fund the U.S. and other militaries.

I think we ought to make it a first-class facility. If it takes more than $50-million, we will have to make sure we find the funds to make it right. It's pretty important to get it right.

Jim Leach

I think we have the funds now for all of it.

Those funds will plug back into the operation of the hospital.

Those funds can be spent wherever there is a need.

George Johnson

Those are going to go a long way toward investing in transportation systems. But we also need the state to step up to the plate and fund their share of what needs to be done.

Dan Pallotta

Everyone wants charities to spend as little as possible on overhead. That's backwards. Overhead is what drives growth. If charities can't grow, they can't solve problems. So overhead is a good thing. And I'm overhead.

With our limited funds we can only do a limited campaign.

When we left Washington and returned to Nashville in 1998, I kept my connections to international oceans issues with the World Wildlife Fund and the Marine Stewardship Council.

We're trying to leverage all the outside grant funding we can get.

Alan Keyes

We need to get rid of the 16th amendment, and return to the original system that funds government with a variety of tariffs and duties.

The Left likes to think of itself as the bulwark of progressive liberal individualism, and yet it seeks to progressively coerce others to fund every social program under the sun via majority rule.

Barry Ritholtz

The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.

We have sent our condolences to the people of Pakistan and we are looking at ways of helping Pakistan's relief funds as well.

There are also many tax-efficient funds that aren't necessarily advertised as such.

There are lots of hedge funds making a living doing these kinds of trades.

We're responsible to make sure that funds are spent responsibly.

We keep all the funds in Kossuth County.

We need to do a round of funding now. Schmitz is not the only option -- we have lots of options. We are not by any means locked into anybody,

Kim Campbell

We know that massive injections of public funds are neither possible nor desirable.

We are working to make sure the funding is there for the school districts. We have made a commitment. If we are not able to secure funding, we will pull the rule.

We have been in similar situations in so many instances. We know what it is like to do without. Every year gets better and better because we know where the funds are going, and see the successes that this money brings.

Michael Monaghan

We have got a war going on, and the veterans are returning home in greater numbers than when we didn't have a war. Our veterans have been overseas doing for our protection. ... We would like to see the state of Illinois increase funding for the program.

We would fund the whole project with grants and funds.

We had $21,000 in funds at the end of 2002, and we had $392,000 at the end of 2005. And the grants that we've made have grown from $500 in 2002 to $190,000 in 2005.

Trying to sell your funds on someone else's platform is hard. The funds better have four-star or five-star ratings, or else it's hard to stand out from the crowd.