“The co-opting of the environmental movement by the petroleum industry had a shattering effect. It crushed nascent biofuel businesses, killed research, cut off critical funding, stopped the building of new infrastructure, dissolved powerful alliances and seeded America with doubt over our ability to free ourselves from petroleum.” AmericaAbilityPowerfulDoubtCuttingEffectsMovementBuildingIndustryResearchEnvironmentalCriticalInfrastructureFundingCrushedAlliancesShatteringPetroleumBiofuels Author:Josh Tickell
“Generally risk-averse, specialist translation imprints have also hollowed out a fairly comfortable niche for themselves: they get ninety percent of the profits for ten percent of the work, often largely funding their operations - and their salaries - through grants that they don't even apply for. If it wasn't for publicly-funded arts bodies and organizations such as PEN, I wouldn't have been able to work on either [Abdellatif] Laâbi or [ Rashid ] Boudjedra.” IfsHas BeensArtBodyAbleRiskTenComfortablePercentOrganizationProfitOperationsGrantsPensNinetyTranslationsSalaryFundingNicheSpecialists Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely
“Other than vaccines and finding a cure, most funding goes toward putting people on treatment. That's completely valid and I understand that, but it's never how we're going to stop AIDS.” PeopleFindingsAidsCuresTreatmentFundingVaccines Author:Charlize Theron
“I’m very excited about all the offers and interest and support pouring in through crowd-funding, and about having a lovely gap coming up when I’ll finally be able to sit down with books and scripts and talk to my partners about how we take the company forward.” BookAbleInterestCompanySupportOffersScriptsCrowdsExcitedPartnersLovelyGapsFundingPouring Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“I think it's important we continue to find new ways for start-up businesses to get access to funding, mentorship and business advice.” ThinkingWayImportantAdviceAccessNew WaysFunding Author:Richard Branson
“We need additional funding for more U.S. combat brigades in Europe. NATO needs to continue to modernize. It is starting to show with the Russians but these exercises are central to show that the alliance is firm, especially as the E.U. starts to have some weakness on the economic front.” NeedsShowsEconomicFrontsExerciseWeaknessEuropeStartingFirmCombatFundingAlliancesNato Author:Michael Leiter
“I hope that there will be no particular need for us to attract external funding. It is worth noting that despite the fact the turnover is smaller now we are still maintaining a trade surplus.” NeedsStillsFactsParticularTradeDespiteMaintainingFundingSurplusTurnover Author:Vladimir Putin
“In Canada, we have a very good structure of supporting film through a number of government-sponsored initiatives, such as the tax credit and other grants. The northern part of Ontario has started its own funding. They were really happy to sponsor us, so they've been very supportive and put up half the budget for this film. They'd like us to come back and do more films.” GovernmentFilmNumbersHalfTaxesStructureVery GoodCreditBudgetsCanadaGrantsInitiativeSupportiveFundingReally HappySponsorsOntario Author:Alfons Adetuyi
“As a result of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, American democracy is being undermined by the ability of the Koch brothers and other billionaire families. These wealthy contributors can literally buy politicians and elections by spending hundreds of millions of dollars in support of the candidates of their choice. We need to overturn Citizens United and move toward public funding of elections so that all candidates can run for office without being beholden to the wealthy and powerful.” NeedsRunningMovingChoicesAbilityDecisionUnitedResultsPowerfulMillionsSupportDemocracyBrotherCitizensPoliticianOfficeElectionCourtDollarsSpendingSupremeCandidatesWealthySupreme CourtFundingBillionaireContributorsAmerican DemocracyCourt DecisionCitizens United Author:Bernie Sanders
“The billionaires and their super PACs increasingly control the American political process. This is not democracy. This is not what brave Americans fought and died to defend. This is oligarchy. This is government of the few, by the few and for the few. We must overturn Citizen United and move to public funding of elections.” GovernmentMovingPoliticalProcessUnitedDemocracyCitizensDiedElectionBraveFundingBillionaireOligarchyPacsCitizens United Author:Bernie Sanders
“There are three major political organizations in this country: the Republican Party, the Democratic Party and the Koch Brothers Party. With billions to spend on campaigns. think tanks and 'educational' organizations, the Koch brothers are the most powerful. We must overturn Citizens United, move to public funding of elections and pass real tax reform.” ThinkingRealCountryMovingPoliticalThreeUnitedPowerfulPartyBrotherCitizensRepublicanTaxesMajorsOrganizationElectionDemocraticEducationalBillionsCampaignsReformMost PowerfulRepublican PartyDemocratic PartyFundingTanksTax ReformCitizens United Author:Bernie Sanders
“When I came into the job, funding for the humanities at the federal level was being drastically cut. This was the high tide of the new Republican Congress.” JobsHumanityLevelsCuttingRepublicanCongressTidesFunding Author:Robert Hass
“Silicon Valley, after all, feeds off the existence of computers, the internet, the IT systems, satellites, the whole of micro electronics and so on, but a lot of that comes straight out of the state sector of the economy. Silicon Valley developed, but they expanded and turned it into commercial products and so on, but the innovation is on the basis of fundamental technological development that took places in places like this [MIT] on government funding, and that continues.” StatesWholeGovernmentExistenceEconomyProductsDevelopmentInternetComputerBasesInnovationFundamentalsValleysTechnologicalFundingSatellitesSiliconSilicon ValleyElectronicsMitTechnological DevelopmentGovernment Funding Author:Noam Chomsky
“I was taking a lot of eyedrops three times a day and I realized I should have it checked out, that's when I was told I had a type of Chronic Dry Eye. Restasis has really worked for me and made my life easier. They're also partnering with Guide Dogs for the Blind, it's a beautiful thing where they're donating a dollar for every quiz taken on Restasis.com. It provides the blind and visually impaired with dogs, and it doesn't have government funding so what Allergan is doing really makes a difference. I'm so happy to be supporting that very inspiring organization.” ShouldMadeGovernmentEyeBeautifulThreeDifferencesTakenDogTypeEasierShould HaveOrganizationBlindDollarsGuidesI RealizedDryMaking A DifferenceBeautiful ThingsThree TimesFundingVery InspiringQuizPartneringGuide DogsGovernment Funding Author:Marisa Tomei
“For most of his life, Donald Trump has described himself as very pro- choice and as a supporter of partial birth abortion. Right now today as a candidate, he supports federal tax payer funding for Planned Parenthood. I disagree with him on that.” TodayChoicesSupportTrumpBirthRight NowTaxesCandidatesAbortionParenthoodDisagreeSupporterFundingPlanned ParenthoodFederal Taxes Author:Ted Cruz
“If you look at the funding of far-right parties in Europe - where's the money coming? We do know that 9 million euros was given by Russia, through a Czech bank, to [French National Front leader] Marine Le Pen. We know that this is not an isolated case. This is happening elsewhere.” IfsKnowsLooksGivenPartyLeaderMillionsCasesFrontsHappeningsEuropeRussiaPensIsolatedElsewhereMarineFundingEuroCzech Author:Toomas Hendrik Ilves
“For ISIS, the answer is to cut off their food, their water, their armaments, you know, and their funding. I don't mean literally their food and water. What I mean is cutting off their life support system.” KnowsMeanWaterAnswersSupportCuttingFundingIsisArmamentSupport SystemsCutting Off Author:Jill Stein
“There's a lot of funding of the media and film in particular, literary publishing gets recognized as culture. I think fashion should too.” ThinkingShouldFilmCultureMediaFashionParticularPublishingFunding Author:Joe Mimran
“We will also be funding projects that empower women and children in Afghanistan and now and then give scholarships to Afghan students here in the Bay Area.” GivingChildrenStudentsProjectsAreasEmpoweringAfghanistanNow And ThenEmpowering WomenFundingScholarshipAfghanBay Area Author:Khaled Hosseini
“Being here in Detroit, our public education in this city is - it's shocking. And the oversight of it and the oversight of the teachers and the funding is nonexistent, and the priority that's put on it is so low.” CitiesTeacherLowsPrioritiesShockingFundingDetroitPublic EducationOversight Author:Mitch Albom
“Bernie Sanders talks about socialism in Scandinavia, and he's correct to point to the huge victories the working class has won there through struggle, such as socialized medicine, free college education, and paid family leave. But if you talk to working people in Sweden or Norway today, you will find out that many of those past gains have been eroded and some virtually eliminated, including massive under-funding of healthcare and other public services and a return to for-profit systems that are unaffordable to working class people.” PeopleIfsHas BeensTodayPastClassStruggleCollegeHugeReturnVictoryGainsPaidMedicineIncludingProfitSocialismMassiveHealthcareWorking ClassFundingPublic ServiceSwedenCollege EducationNorwaySocialized MedicineScandinavia Author:Kshama Sawant
“I will cancel every illegal Obamacare executive order. I will cancel all federal funding to sanctuary cities. Out.” OrderCitiesExecutivesIllegalFundingSanctuaryObamacareExecutive Orders Author:Donald Trump
“If they were going to go to London or to the UK to find out how health care is, national health care doesn't work, all they have to do is go to the Soviet Union to find out how communism and socialism didn't work, but it hasn't dissuaded them from trying it here because they think the only thing that hasn't happened is the right people haven't tried it with the proper funding.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingCareHappenedHavensUnionsLondonSocialismCommunismHealth CareSovietSoviet UnionFundingCommunism And Socialism Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Obviously these conditions [violence, poverty] predate the [Barack] Obama presidency and the president has limited ways to dent this violence. But funding war weapons in cities, as opposed to more community policing, is not the solution.” WayWarPresidentCommunityCitiesPovertyViolenceConditionsWeaponsSolutionsBarackPresidencyFunding Author:Julianne Malveaux
“After a brief couple of years in the late '70s, public funding for clean energy technologies dried up and has been on the decline ever since.” YearsHas BeensEnergyTechnologyCoupleLateCleanDeclineFundingClean Energy Author:Ted Nordhaus
“When Ben Carson said that he would remove all federal funding for universities that had 'extreme political bias.' Who would decide what political bias was, and what is 'extreme'? That kind of policing of ideas has a striking resemblance to the black list, and that's what happened during that era.” KindSaidIdeasPoliticalBlackHappenedUniversityExtremesListsErasRemoveBiasFundingResemblanceBen Carson Author:Jay Roach
“Email says that no, it is the governments of Saudi and Qatar that have been funding ISIS.” Has BeensGovernmentEmailFundingIsisSaudisQatar Author:Julian Assange
“The Islamic State is able to raise finances through taxation, through theft of banks, and certainly through oil sales from the Omar oilfields in eastern Syria. So right now the question of funding isn't of the essence.” StatesAbleRight NowEssenceRaisesOilFinanceIslamicSyriaEasternTaxationFundingTheftIslamic StateOmar Author:Vijay Prashad
“Usage tends to be global, while funding tends tobe local. When we allow it to happen, usage of a digital library is remarkably diverse and widespread.” HappensLibraryLocalsDigitalDiverseFundingUsage Author:Tom Peters
“Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized.” InstitutionsLibraryDigitalTiedBricksFundingMortarBricks And Mortar Author:Tom Peters
“It may be primarily property taxes in the case of a public library, or state taxes and tuition in the case of an academic library at a public university, but the funding sources of most libraries continue to have a strong geographic component.” MayStatesStrongCasesSourceTaxesPropertyLibraryUniversityAcademicComponentsFundingPublic LibraryTuitionProperty Taxes Author:Tom Peters
“One very difficult decision was deciding to vote against the appropriations bill for the war. I had consistently said that I wanted to make sure our troops got the adequate and training in the war effort, despite the fact that I opposed the war at the point that the president decided to double down and send more troops. I had to vote against funding as a way of bringing it back to the table. That was a difficult decision for me.” WaySaidWarFactsWantedDifficultPresidentDecisionEffortTrainingDecidedVoteDown AndTablesBillsDespiteTroopsConsistentlyAdequateFundingOur TroopsAppropriationDifficult Decisions Author:Barack Obama
“There's a sense of desperation in Afghanistan because of the lack of funding and the fact that the U.S. only has a one-track military strategy. It doesn't have an economic and political game plan.” FactsPoliticalGamesPlansEconomicMilitaryStrategyTrackAfghanistanDesperationFundingGame PlanMilitary StrategyPolitical Games Author:Ahmed Rashid
“I want to invest in research. Research is great. Providing funding to universities and think tanks is great. But investing in companies? Absolutely not.” ThinkingWantCompanyResearchUniversityInvestingProvidingFundingTanks Author:Mitt Romney
“I do sense, as compared with let's say the early '50s, there's somewhat more of a careerism. I don't think it's anything special to economics; it's equally true with physics or biology. A graduate education has become a more career-oriented thing, and part of that is because of the need for funding. In fact, that's a much worse problem in the natural sciences than it is in economics. So you can't even do your work in the natural sciences, particularly, and even to some extent in economics, without funding.” ThinkingNeedsFactsProblemNaturalCareersSpecialEconomicsPhysicsBiologyGraduatesFundingNatural Science Author:Kenneth Arrow
“We're creating this alliance, GAVI, that has helped buy the vaccines that were in the rich world but not getting to the poor kids, getting a very cheap price and figuring out the cold chain, getting the delivery right, and then funding research for new vaccines. A lot of them are coming along. We've got a meningitis vaccine out, got that through large parts of Africa. That has been a huge success.” WorldHas BeensKidsPoorRichHugeColdCreatingResearchChainsFundingAlliancesDeliveryVaccinesMeningitis Author:Bill Gates
“Now, you ban not the whole Muslim world. You ban seven states, seven states that have not been responsible for a single terrorist act. Those are the seven [Donald Trump] banned. But, you leave the ones that really are responsible, like Saudi Arabia, which is the center for propaganda and funding and so on for radical Islamic Jihadism, well you can't touch them because of business interests, also they have oil and so on and so forth.” WorldWellsStatesWholeInterestTrumpResponsibleSevenOilTerroristRadicalPropagandaIslamicFundingBansArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisBannedMuslim World Author:Noam Chomsky
“Kids are growing up in communities in which they see their loved ones cycling in and out of prison and in which they are sent the message in countless ways that they, too, are going to prison one way or another. We cannot build healthy, functioning schools within a context where there is no funding available because it's going to building prisons and police forces.” WayKidsSchoolForceCommunityGrowing UpGrowingBuildingHealthyMessagesPolicePrisonAvailableOne WayLoved OnesFundingCyclingPolice Force Author:Michelle Alexander
“I was inspired by what students have done in some schools organizing walkouts protesting the lack of funding and that sort of thing. There are opportunities for students to engage in those types of protests - taking to the streets - but there is also writing poetry, writing music, beginning to express themselves, holding forums, educating each other, the whole range.” WritingDoneWholeSchoolOpportunityStreetsStudentsTypeMusic IsInspiredRangeProtestFundingForumsWriting PoetryWriting Music Author:Michelle Alexander
“Bill Clinton kept funding Star Wars. He took the biggest military budget to Congress in history. He routinely bombed Iraq, and he kept the barbaric sanctions in place. He's really played his part. The George W. Bush gang has taken it just a little further.” LittlesWarStarsTakenMilitaryBillsClintonCongressIraqBudgetsGangFundingSanctionsBarbaricMilitary Budget Author:John Pilger
“There was a time when the women of Afghanistan - at least in Kabul - were out there. They were allowed to study, they were doctors and surgeons, walking free, wearing what they wanted. That was when it was under Soviet occupation. Then the United States starts funding the mujahideen. Reagan called them Afghanistan's "founding fathers." It reincarnates the idea of "jehad," virtually creates the Taliban.” IdeasStatesWantedFatherUnitedUnited StatesStudyWalkingDoctorsOccupationAfghanistanSovietFoundingFundingSurgeonsTalibanKabulMujahideen Author:Arundhati Roy
“Since Reagan, it's almost impossible to get funding for research on sexual pleasure. You can find sexual behavior research, but not sexual pleasure. And let alone lesbian or homosexual sexuality.” PleasureImpossibleBehaviorResearchSexualityHomosexualFunding Author:Naomi Wolf
“Every time you have an opportunity of opening a school, its fee and funding is really relatively small in comparison with the big expenditure, which is basically quote unquote defense. I think if there were fees, progress could be very much faster. But for that we need not only the government in different countries to understand it but the society to put pressure on it, the parents to understand that their desire to have their children educated can actually be realized, and it could make a dramatic difference.” IfsThinkingNeedsChildrenDifferentCountryBigsGovernmentSchoolDesireOpportunityParentDifferencesProgressPressureDefenseOpeningEducatedFasterDramaticComparisonFundingFeesExpendituresDifferent Countries Author:Amartya Sen
“Reductionist ideology not only hinders biologists from thinking adequately about the phenomena we wish to understand: it has two important social consequences: it serves to relocate social problems to the individual rather than exploring the societal roots and determinants of a phenomenon; and second, it diverts attention and funding from the social to the molecular.” ThinkingTwoImportantProblemIndividualWishSocialAttentionConsequenceRootsIdeologyPhenomenonExploringFundingHinderBiologistSocial Problems Author:Steven Rose
“When Vladimir Putin runs up against American power and American criticism and American leadership that reminds him of what Russia isn`t, when he runs up against people who he worries are funding his dissidents or supporting protests against him, when he runs up against criticism of the way he runs his own country, what he`s running up against is the State Department.” PeopleWayCountryStatesRunningWorryCriticismRussiaDepartmentProtestFundingPutinDissidentsAmerican LeadershipAmerican Power Author:Rachel Maddow
“Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.” NeedsAttentionIssuesGroupsFunding Author:Bjorn Lomborg
“Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.” StatesOrderAcceptingRequirementsSovereigntyFunding Author:Bob Barr
“Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.” NeedsGovernmentReformAutismFundingCoverageEpidemicsEducation ReformGovernment Funding Author:Jenny McCarthy
“To be brutally honest, it's simple economics. If they want to come into cycling, sponsors need to know the team they are funding is clean, otherwise the risk is just too great.” IfsKnowsWantNeedsSimpleRiskTeamHonestEconomicsCleanFundingCyclingSponsorsBrutally Honest Author:David Millar