#funding

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

#analogy #bankrupt #bankruptcy #country #doubt

Support for the arts -- merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore! ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#arts #diy #funding #government #grant

The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed. ↗

— LeVar Burton

#children #decade #funding #last #machinery

I do think actually in this case the government does get credit for funding some of the basic research. ↗

— Steve Case

#basic #basic research #case #credit #does

What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#american economy #because #developments #economy #envy

Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector. ↗

— Jane Alexander

#goes #leverage #most #organizations #our

We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services. ↗

— Joe Baca

#ample #cannot #dislocated #federal #funding

We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#experience #frankly #funding #had #haven

I think it's great that they are getting funding, but it's just too easy. They don't have to work for it. We did it because we had pride, because we loved it. ↗

— Linford Christie

#did #easy #funding #getting #great

Social Security is something that we need to deal with, because people who are working today, who will retire in the future, people who are retired today, they have a right - and it's part of the compact that they can depend on their benefits. We should fix the long-term funding problem of Social Security because that's the right thing to do. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#benefits #compact #deal #depend #fix