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“Political parties that are predominantly funded by the richest members of society will always be corrupt.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“I am mystified why the USA is sending massive amounts of very expensive weapons to Ukraine when it cannot adequately fund its own disability system!”

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Author:Steven Magee

“The philosophy to 'buy and hold' is a philosophy that I use to manage funds.”

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Author:Michael Lee-Chin

“I'm making a case against how money managers are handling customers' money. The objective of the customer is not being met if the fund managers are diversifying their assets into hundreds of businesses. If they do this, they are typically performing close to the indexes. But that's not the way wealth is created.”

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Author:Michael Lee-Chin

“On behalf of my native Japan, I am grateful to the culinary community and hospitality industry for working together to raise much-needed funds to aid the tsunami and earthquake victims.”

Together Community Industry Needed Raises Victim Grateful Aids Native Japan Working Together Fund Culinary Behalf Hospitality Earthquakes I Am Grateful Tsunami

Author:Masaharu Morimoto

“The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got paid the last gig we ever did. After that, we had to work to support our families.”

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Author:Gerald Caiafa

“If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences.”

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Author:Nancy Pearcey

“I think the funds that have been pledged at Euro Summit combined with the outcome of the private sector involvement process should be sufficient in order to support financially the Greek economy.”

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Author:Lucas Papademos

“It's clear to me when you do private equity well, you're making companies more efficient and helping them grow and become more profitable. That success means our investors - such as public pension funds - benefit, which contributes to the economic wealth of society.”

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Author:David Rubenstein

“We also need a fund that can say 'no'.”

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Author:Rodrigo Rato

“Enrollment in Colorado is expected to expand about 25 percent in seven years. It's very difficult to find those additional funds. Therefore, I think you're probably going to have increased pressure on tuition.”

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Author:Roy Romer

“Increased revenues, meaning higher taxes, will be a central element of any successful long-term budget plan, and President Obama is right to insist that the wealthy - the slice of America that has come through the recession in by far the best financial health - should provide those funds.”

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Author:Steven Rattner

“Picking winners among the many young companies seeking money is a tough business, even for the most sophisticated investors. Indeed, most professionally run venture funds lose money. For individuals, it's pure folly. Buy a lottery ticket instead. Your chance of winning is likely to be higher.”

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Author:Steven Rattner

“It's traditionally not federal policy to fund state and local salaries. It's done sometimes on a temporary basis or a grant basis. But it's not often done. And the reason is clear, because the federal government can't continue in perpetuity these programs.”

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Author:Jim Talent

“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.”

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Author:Charles M. Vest

“Thanks to a deal finalized in 2008, Chicago’s parking meters will be operated for the next 75 years by a group of investors put together by Morgan Stanley, including the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi.”

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Author:Thomas Frank

“The only truly individualistic health-care choice - where you receive care that is unpolluted by anyone else’s funds - is to forgo insurance altogether, paying out-of-pocket for health services as you need them.”

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Author:Thomas Frank

“The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.”

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Author:Al Franken

“To the extent that people overpay as a result of the Libor manipulation, they should be able to get their money back. Individuals who have mortgages, pension funds who had pensioner investments - whoever was ripped off is entitled to get their money back.”

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Author:Peter Welch

“The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?”

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Author:Jeremy Paxman

“There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.”

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Author:Jack Kemp

“Nicaragua is a World Bank and International Monetary Fund designated "heavily indebted poor country," with little legal ability to control its economic future: Everything is for sale. And once Nicaraguans decide to cash in and sell their houses or farms, they have to look far inland for anything affordable.”

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Author:Tony D'Souza

“The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America implies that we have a colorblind society where minorities are equal in their pursuit of funds to go to school.”

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Author:William H. Gray III

“One of the first bills I helped passed was the Shore Protection Fund, which provides a stable source of funding for shore protection, something very important for Monmouth County and the entire Jersey Shore.”

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Author:Joe Kyrillos

“It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.”

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Author:Jane Alexander

“My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality.”

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Author:Jean-Jacques Annaud

“From coast to coast, the FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission have ensnared people not only at hedge funds, but at technology and pharmaceutical companies, consulting and law firms, government agencies, and even a major stock exchange.”

“I have two step-kids and one of my own on the way. That's three college funds.”

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Author:Black Francis

“The gratification of helping others is a very American tradition and a Judeo-Christian tradition. Now it is great to see young people creating funds and giving back in all sorts of productive ways. It's a terrifically satisfying thing.”

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Author:Evelyn Lauder

“We can reach our world, if we will. The greatest lack today is not people or funds. The greatest need is prayer.”

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Book:Touch the World Through Prayer

Source: Touch the World Through Prayer

“President Bush is an intelligent man. He is not going to declare an economic war against Iraq . [...] I admire your extraordinary efforts to rebuild your country. I know you need funds. We understand that, and our opinion is that you should have the opportunity to rebuild your country. But we have no opinion on Arab-Arab conflicts like your border disagreement with Kuwait .”

“Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in the most poetic sense, see any virtue in the preservation of the cheetah species. They are not working to save the cheetah from extinction like some molecular World Wildlife Fund.”

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Author:Richard Dawkins

“You're talking to investors - and investors, they look at you and they realize, you know, not every business they invest in are the founders or the people running it going to have every bit of skill - and I think they looked at me and realized, OK, this is a guy who's got a lot - I'm much older than the usual run of people they fund.”

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Author:David Plotz

“There's something wrong when hedge fund managers pay lower tax rates than nurses or the truckers”

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Author:Lindsey Graham

“The Democrats are using the human trafficking bill's language that's been there for 40 years, regarding the use of federal funds for abortion.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permissible to grab the secretary's behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage?”

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Author:Meg Greenfield

“Anyone who contributes to the defense fund of pornographers is a mental moonbeam.”

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Author:Mike Royko

“One must not be mean with the affections; what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.”

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Author:Sigmund Freud

“The Europeans governments have massively changed the landscape in Europe. There is no doubt about it. They have put together the European Financial Stability Fund. They have discussed and approved the European Stability Mechanism.”

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Author:Christine Lagarde

“What matters is not the allocation of portions out of a fund presented to man by nature. The problem is rather to further those social institutions which enable people to continue and to enlarge the production of all those things which they need.”

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Book:Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The

Source: Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The

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