“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.” EnergyWaterChallengesMy OwnCompanySuccessfulFocusMoonSkillsAreasEntrepreneurCleanSolveMy TimeHealthcareFundingClean WaterSuccessful Company Author:Naveen Jain
“Australians just don't see that many Australian films, but it's also our responsibility as filmmakers and the responsibility of the funding bodies to remember that audiences want to be entertained, and people are entertained in lots of different ways.” PeopleWayWantDifferentBodyRememberFilmResponsibilityAudienceDifferent WaysFilmmakerFundingAustralianAustralian Films Author:Georgina Haig
“The United States has more people living in poverty than at almost any time in the modern history of our country. I believe that in a democratic, civilized society none of our people should be hungry or living in desperation. We need to expand Social Security, not cut it. We need to increase funding for nutrition programs, not cut them.” PeopleNeedsShouldBelieveCountryStatesI BelieveSocialUnitedPovertyUnited StatesCuttingModernSecurityProgramIncreaseDemocraticHungryOur CountryCivilizedNutritionDesperationSocial SecurityFundingCivilized SocietyModern History Author:Bernie Sanders
“The business of funding digging journalists is important to encourage. It cannot be replaced by bloggers who don't have access to politicians, who don't have easy access to official documents, who aren't able to buttonhole people in power.” PeopleImportantAbleEasyPoliticianAccessJournalistOfficialsReplacedDocumentsFundingDiggingBloggersEasy Access Author:Andrew Marr
“I am truly an angel investor and I'am not a passive investor.As a passive investor, I am awful because I can not put funding into a company and leave it to other people.” PeopleI CanCompanyAngelAwfulInvestorsPassiveCan NotFundingBecause I Can Author:Terry Matthews
“...a vocal minority of scientists so mistrusts the models and the complex fragmentary data, that some claim that global warming is a hoax. They have made public statements accusing other scientists of deliberate fraud in aid of their research funding. Both sides are now hurling personal epithets at each other, a very bad development in Earth sciences.” MadeEarthSidesDevelopmentModelsResearchScientistClaimsComplexesAidsStatementsDataGlobal WarmingMinoritiesFraudBoth SidesDeliberateVocalFundingMistrustAccusingHoaxesEpithetHurlingEarth Science Author:Joanne Simpson
“Science and its practice are no longer free and willing today but instead are constantly terrorized by research funding gravy trains and group thinking. This is why science needs defending and it takes courage to cleanse science from those cancerous elements and to bring her forward in its rightful place again. I am humbled and honored by this recognition.” ThinkingNeedsTodayPracticeGroupsWillingElementsResearchTrainRecognitionHonoredFundingGravy Author:Willie Soon
“Well, it's great to have a Sony Records or a BMG or a Warner Brothers pocketbook. Money is a challenge when you're funding your own start-up costs and everything. But I feel like it's doable. You just have to be very careful.” FeelsWellsChallengesRecordsBrotherCostCarefulFundingSonyPocketbooksWarner Brothers Author:Pam Tillis
“Developing a strategy, leading the world, funding it to make sure that we have a military that's second to none, and doing the job and making sure that we destroy ISIS there. That's how you keep America safe.” WorldJobsAmericaMilitarySafeStrategyDevelopingFundingIsis Author:Jeb Bush
“My modus operandi after working for a decade as a self-funding freelancer, was to spend as little money as possible to get the job done, even if it was on someone else's nickel.” IfsLittlesSelfDoneJobsDecadesFundingNickelsLittle MoneyGet The Job DoneModus Operandi Author:Peter Menzel
“I'm funding a new business with money I would have given away in the first place. And I'm starting a responsible business and I'm educating the consumer about chemistry that is totally sustainable - not just from a production point of view, but it also helps sustain the human psyche and physical body - based on informational, energetic matter.” FirstsHumansMatterHelpingBodyGivenViewsResponsibleStartingProductionsPoint Of ViewConsumersChemistryFundingEnergeticPhysical BodyNew BusinessHuman PsycheResponsible Business Author:Horst Rechelbacher
“Twice I have testified in congress that unbiased funding on the subject of the causes of warming would be much closer to a reality if 50% of that money was devoted to finding natural reasons for climate change.” IfsReasonRealityWould BeCausesNaturalSubjectsFindingsClimateClimate ChangeCongressDevotedFundingUnbiased Author:Roy Spencer
“Judging by their positions at the time, rather than their post hoc allegations, Democrats adored the Soviet Union. Congressional Democrats repeatedly opposed funding anti-Communist rebels, they opposed Reagan's military build-up, they opposed building a shield to protect America from incoming missiles, they opposed putting missiles in Europe. As a rule, Democrats opposed anything opposed by their cherished Soviet Union.” AmericaMilitaryPositionBuildingJudgingProtectEuropeUnionsDemocratPostsCommunistRebelSovietSoviet UnionFundingShieldsMissilesAllegationsAnti Communist Author:Ann Coulter
“It is beyond my comprehension why today in America, hundreds of thousands of bright young people are unable to go to college - for one reason: that their family lacks the funding. And together we are going to change that.” PeopleReasonTodayTogetherAmericaYoungCollegeFundingComprehension Author:Bernie Sanders
“Liberals claim to love gays when it allows them to vent their spleen at Republicans. But disagree with liberals and their first response is to call you gay. Liberals are gays' biggest champions on issues most gays couldn't care less about, like gay marriage or taxpayer funding of photos of men with bullwhips up their derrieres. But who has done more to out, embarrass, and destroy the lives of gay men who prefer to keep their orientation private than Democrats? Who is more intolerant of gays in the Republican Party than gays in the Democratic Party?” MenFirstsDoneCarePartyIssuesRepublicanGayClaimsDemocraticDemocratResponseChampionDisagreeRepublican PartyGay MarriageDemocratic PartyFundingTaxpayersOrientationGay MenSpleen Author:Ann Coulter
“I say, too, with education, America needs to be putting a lot more focus on that and our schools have got to be really ramped up in terms of the funding that they are deserving. Teachers needed to be paid more.” NeedsSchoolAmericaTermFocusTeacherNeededPaidFundingDeserving Author:Sarah Palin
“When you commit a serious doping offence you are not eligible for lottery funding.” SeriousCommitFundingLotteryOffenceDoping Author:John Scott
“The idea that the United States of American might shut down its government over abortion and funding to an organization that is 0.01% of the U.S. budget seems completely insane. Anyone looking at this debate around the world is thinking 'What is this country doing? They have three wars going on, they're trying to manage major problems and they're thinking of shutting down their government over abortion?'” ThinkingWorldTryingIdeasWarCountryStatesProblemSeemsGovernmentMightThreeUnitedUnited StatesMajorsOrganizationDebateInsaneManageAround The WorldBudgetsAbortionFundingMajor ProblemsShutting Down Author:Katty Kay
“Who knew, in 2000, that compassionate conservatism meant bigger government, unrestricted government spending, government intrusion in personal matters, government ineptitude, and cronyism in disaster relief? Who knew, in 2000, that the only bill the president would veto, six years later, would be one on funding stem-cell research? A more accurate term for Mr. Bush's political philosophy might be incontinent conservatism.” YearsMatterPhilosophyGovernmentMightWould BePoliticalPresidentTermSixResearchBiggerBillsSpendingDisasterCellsReliefCompassionateAccurateStemConservatismFundingPolitical PhilosophyIntrusionGovernment SpendingStem CellVetoStem Cell ResearchIneptitudePersonal MatterCronyismDisaster Relief Author:Christopher Buckley
“This year [2015] has shown with painful clarity that our existing systems, approaches, and funding, are inadequate to the task at hand, and to the amount of human suffering that is ongoing.” YearsHumansHandsSufferingAmountApproachTasksPainfulClarityOngoingFundingInadequateHuman SufferingTask At Hand Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“Partnerships can be very big. The relationships you cultivate can help. If you put together a business plan that makes sense and that you can present to other people, they may be able to help you out, especially if you're short of cash. Angel investors, perhaps, may help. You may not have to go through a traditional bank. If you're not able to secure funding, you can get up under someone who has experience, learn from that person, and work your way up.” PeopleIfsWayMayPersonsHelpingBigsAbleTogetherPlansAngelTraditionalGet UpSecureMake SenseInvestorsCashPartnershipFundingBusiness Plan Author:Kamerion Wimbley
“California, because of their Equity Funding Formula, moves a step in that direction by sending more resources to communities and students that face greater levels of poverty. But California is doing that from a greater position of real weakness, because they were already so far behind other states in funding per student. It’s a step, but many more steps need to be taken.” NeedsRealStatesFacesMovingCommunityLevelsBehindsStepsPovertyTakenGreaterPositionStudentsWeaknessResourcesCaliforniaFormulasEquityFunding Author:Pedro Noguera
“We can become very short-sighted in terms of objectives. The first thing to go during times of economic crisis and budget cuts is funding for things that are essential and not-quantifiable, like the arts. Save Big Bird” FirstsArtBigsTermCuttingEconomicEssentialsBirdCrisisObjectivesBudgetsFundingEconomic CrisisShort SightedBudget CutsBig Bird Author:Julia Stiles
“This president [Barack Obama] is undermining our military. This president is more interested in funding Planned Parenthood than in funding the military.” PresidentMilitaryBarackParenthoodFundingPresident Barack ObamaUnderminingPlanned Parenthood Author:Marco Rubio
“In general, Iranians believe that all Palestinians have the right to return home and that there is no chosen people on this earth, whether Jewish, Muslim, Christian. Iran had the same policy towards apartheid South Africa and at the time when it was supporting and funding the ANC [African National Congress] among other groups in South Africa, these groups were also considered to be terrorist organizations by many western governments.” PeopleBelieveHomeGovernmentEarthChristianGroupsPolicyReturnOrganizationSouthWesternCongressTerroristChosenIranPalestinianSouth AfricaFundingApartheid Author:Mohammad Marandi
“Basically political economy - that you have to look at how funding structures shape the media landscape. You have to look at commercial interests, consolidation - the economy structures are experience.” LooksPoliticalInterestEconomyMediaShapesStructureLandscapeFundingPolitical EconomyConsolidation Author:Astra Taylor
“Technology and television didn't dictate one path or the other - it was civil society and public policy intervening in creating alternative funding models. So I think that's one of the questions for our time: do we want to intervene in this model or completely acquiesce and leave it to the unfettered, not-actually-that-free market? Neither path is inevitable.” ThinkingWantTechnologyPathPolicyTelevisionCreatingModelsAlternativesInevitableOur TimeFree MarketFundingCivil SocietyPublic PolicyIntervening Author:Astra Taylor
“think there's a culture of Silicon Valley that seems to have the attitude that you can have it both ways, that you can be an insurgent but also, ultimately, it's paid for by advertising, when in fact advertising is totally retrograde. Now that's an industry we should be disrupting, and maybe you disrupt it by funding public media. None of this is technological destiny; there are only social choices.” ThinkingWayShouldFactsSeemsChoicesCultureSocialAttitudeDestinyMediaIndustryPaidAdvertisingValleysTechnologicalFundingSiliconSilicon ValleyInsurgentRetrograde Author:Astra Taylor
“Again, it does seem like frustration is mounting in interesting ways, but I'm not sure there will be some dramatic tipping point. Then again, looking back on the history of television, you never know. People had to fight and articulate the politics and the rationale for different funding mechanisms. That was a long and drawn-out battle fought in different countries; it's not like BBC and the CBC in Canada just magically appeared out of the ether. People had to organize for it. I'm always willing to be surprised.” PeopleKnowsWayLongDoeDifferentCountrySeemsFightingInterestingTelevisionWillingBattleDramaticNot SureCanadaFrustrationMechanismLooking BackOrganizeFundingTippingDifferent CountriesRationaleTipping PointInteresting WaysCbc Author:Astra Taylor
“It's always been difficult for me to find funding for a story that I want to follow in real time. Financiers are hesitant to support a project when they don't know the outcome.” KnowsWantRealStoriesDifficultSupportProjectsOutcomesFundingHesitantFinanciers Author:Chris Hegedus
“If you do an episode about something like transverse myelitis, it's a real disease that's out there, there are a lot of people that have it, and it's hard to get funding for them because people don't know about it. There are actually a lot of doctors that don't know about it. But if you do an episode of House, all of a sudden 15 million people are hearing the words, and it's an opportunity.” PeopleIfsKnowsRealHardOpportunityHouseMillionsDiseaseDoctorsHearingEpisodesFunding Author:Peter Jacobson
“What I find astounding is that we've had a president who is black in office for the past eight years, who gets most of his funding from the liberal elite in Hollywood. Yet, there are not very many roles for people of color. How can that be? And why is it just now being addressed?” PeopleYearsPastBlackPresidentRolesColorOfficeHollywoodEightElitesFunding Author:Stacey Dash
“I've written a script which will help change consciousness and free people from an old dead Earth and help them make their journey to the new one where we will have true health, creativity, freedom, love and dream sharing. We are working on getting the funding for it and will be the deepest communication I've shared yet which goes back to your question up top.” PeopleHelpingDreamEarthConsciousnessCreativityWrittenJourneyCommunicationScriptsFundingLove Freedom Author:Giuseppe Andrews
“Phil Gramm had a stump speech about how his mother's devotion kept him from being an academic failure in life. She got him into a special school that turned him around - under a government program for the children of deceased veterans. He was repeatedly asked at press conferences why he would then turn around and support draconian cuts in federal funding for education. He never had an answer.” ChildrenGovernmentSchoolMotherTurnsAnswersSupportCuttingSpecialSpeechProgramPressesDevotionAcademicVeteranConferencesFundingGovernment ProgramsFailure In LifePress ConferencesDeceasedStumpsDraconian Author:Gail Collins
“Another agency - the IRS - did not do as well under Republicans who control Congress. The IRS is largely flatlined in their spending, but they did get about 300 million more funding. But I can only be used to help people pay their taxes and answer questions. It can't be used for any other purpose.” PeopleWellsI CanHelpingUsedPurposeAnswersPayMillionsRepublicanTaxesCongressSpendingAgencyFundingIrs Author:Susan Davis
“I believe in public funding of elections, absolutely. But this system iscurrently very antiquated and no longer applies to modern day politics.” BelieveI BelieveModernElectionI Believe InFundingModern Day Author:Bernie Sanders
“I think we've got to do more to stop foreign fighters, foreign funding and take ISIS on online, as well as doing everything necessary to keep us safe at home.” ThinkingWellsHomeSafeFighterOnlineFundingIsis Author:Hillary Clinton
“The only role other than paying their taxes, whatever those are, the only role for philanthropy broadly - of which the rich should give disproportionately - the more, the better - and I think there is a positive trend in that direction - there are certain risk-taking things, like trying out a new type of charter school or funding a new kind of medicine.” ThinkingGivingShouldTryingKindSchoolCertainRolesRichRiskTypeTaxesMedicineTrendsPhilanthropyFundingRisk-takingCharterCharter Schools Author:Bill Gates
“On the supply side, for innovation, you'd say, go look at those R&D budgets, and they haven't moved in the last 20 years. In the case of the US - which is the majority of R&D funding across every category you can name: health, energy, whatever - it's been about $5 billion a year from the Department of Energy.” YearsLooksNamesEnergySidesCasesHavensInnovationMajorityMovedBillionsBudgetsDepartmentCategoriesFunding Author:Bill Gates
“I believe you [Donald Trump] know politicians better than I do because for 40 years you've been funding liberal Democratic politicians.” KnowsYearsBelieveI BelieveTrumpPoliticianDemocraticFunding Author:Ted Cruz
“At the individual level, if we can identify the psychological mechanisms linking adverse environments to psychosis (and there has been a lot of progress with this despite minimal funding) we should be able to devise more effective interventions for those who are already ill.” IfsShouldHas BeensAbleIndividualLevelsEnvironmentProgressIllPsychologicalDespiteMechanismInterventionFundingAdversePsychosis Author:Richard Bentall
“One of the issues with some of these lenders is going to be, where will their provider of credit be when there's a crisis? That's why some of these smarter services, to support their operations, are courting more permanent capital. They want a source of longer-term funding that can survive a crisis.” WantTermSupportIssuesSourceCrisisCreditPermanentOperationsSmarterFundingProvidersLenders Author:Jamie Dimon
“I haven't studied it deeply, but the American banks started the crisis with far more capital and what I would call "good liquidity." The riskiest funding is unsecured wholesale funding. It's the most fickle. Not repo, which the government focused on, too. Unsecured. JPMorgan Chase had almost none of that - virtually zero.” GovernmentHavensCrisisFocusedZeroFundingFickleWholesaleLiquidity Author:Jamie Dimon
“I can't talk about - as eloquently as everyone else about a prevention or medicine or, you know, funding, but I can talk about the human element, which is the main part of AIDS, because it comes to the human being and how they are being treated, what medicines they are on and what medicines they are not on.” KnowsHumansI CanHuman BeingsElementsMedicineAidsTreatedFundingPrevention Author:Elton John
“I was in the second year of my PhD when I first had the idea - I'd recently started working as a translator, which meant firstly that I was hearing about amazing-sounding books from other translators, and also that I was getting enough of an insider's view of the publishing industry to be aware of all the implicit biases that made it so difficult for these books to ever get published, especially if they weren't from European languages (harder to discover, editors can't read the original, lack of funding programmes, authors who don't speak English).” IfsYearsFirstsMadeBookIdeasEnoughSpeakLanguageDifficultViewsIndustryHarderOriginalsHearingMade ItEditorsPublishingFundingProgrammesImplicitTranslatorsSpeak EnglishInsidersPhdsPublishing Industry Author:Deborah Smith
“The problem with freedom is that you just can't go back. Once people see what it means to be free people, you can't go back. So they're going to keep nattering on about this and that, and maybe they'll make another stab at de-funding the fabulous Planned Parenthood or something of the sort. To my mind, it's just not going to work.” PeopleMindMeanProblemParenthoodFabulousGoing To WorkFundingPlanned Parenthood Author:Anna Quindlen
“In France, it is television that pays for films to be made and I received all of my funding from TV: two television channels, government funding and distributor contribution (Wild Bunch). My films are low-budget, and not expensive [to make].” MadeTwoGovernmentFilmPayTelevisionTvsLowsBunchFranceBudgetsContributionExpensiveFundingDistributorsGovernment Funding Author:Emmanuelle Bercot
“The gag rule is, is that if any program receiving United States funding for Family Planning cannot mention, cannot speak the word "abortion" in the Third World.” IfsWorldStatesSpeakUnitedUnited StatesProgramThirdsPlanningAbortionReceivingFundingThird WorldGagsFamily Planning Author:Eleanor Smeal
“The gag rule must be eliminated, and it's just the gag rule, we're not talking now even about funding abortion. We're talking about, you know, counseling and speaking, so that's one. That can be reversed by an executive order. [George W.]Bush put it in the first day he got in office. We hope that [Barack] Obama takes it out. He had cut off funding for the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, even though Congress had appropriated. It is injured women who are the poorest of the poor.” KnowsFirstsOrderNationsPoorUnitedTalkingCuttingOfficeCongressPopulationBarackAbortionFundExecutivesUnited NationsFundingInjuredPoorestNot TalkingCounselingGagsExecutive Orders Author:Eleanor Smeal
“We are facing an enormous crisis in Africa right now in terms of illegal wildlife trafficking, which is decimating animal populations, destroying local economies, and funding armed insurgencies and terrorist syndicates. If we do not find solutions to this crisis now, there will be little habitat left beyond sparse areas of national parks that will serve as glorified zoos to small pockets of remaining animals.” IfsLittlesLeftTermAnimalEconomyRight NowSolutionsAreasCrisisPopulationTerroristEnormousLocalsParksPocketsIllegalDestroyingFundingWildlifeZoosHabitatNational ParksTraffickingInsurgencySyndicate Author:David Jeremiah Barron