Mort Kondracke Quotes

When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.

Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.

Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.

My one concern is that when money gets tight, it's easy to cut R&D funding that isn't tied to a specific project - look at what's happened to NASA's aviation research.

There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we're probably wasting a great deal of homeland security money trying to be politically correct, when we really need to make sure that our cities get the money they need.

For every dollar we have given to athletics, we have given about 27 to higher education or medical research.

If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would cancel all new trials, for just one year, and I would spend the money exclusively on making sure that we make the best possible use of the clinical evidence that we already have.

I believe for some high-technology medicine, like transplants and kidney dialysis, age should be a consideration in the delivery of that technology. In a world of limited resources, we have a larger duty to a 10-year-old than to a 90-year-old.

The thing that we at MIT must understand is the amount of real damage that is being done to us in the fine structure of how research funds are expended.

And one of the things we did here was we put the maximum amount of money up front in those cities that were at the greater risk, but that doesn't mean that we keep rebuilding the same security over and over again.

As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.

Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it.

Trust me, I'm going to find out where the money has gone and how it has been spent, and see if we can't get it down there quicker to let that rebuilding start.

It's wonderful that so many people want to contribute to fighting aids or malaria. But, if somebody isn't paying attention to the overall health system in the country, a whole lot of money can be wasted.

I'm not going to deprive my constituents of money that's out there.

The decline in funding for the physical sciences has put our Nation's capabilities for scientific innovation at risk.

Institutions are increasingly persuaded that political maneuvering is more important than scientific justification in securing federal funds.

It is absolutely key that funding is used to support the best scientists with the best ideas.

University President: Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers . . . and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for erasers.

A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.

In the class that I teach at one University, I stress that my one-word definition of politics is money. You can't name a subject matter that money doesn't touch.

The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.

One of the things that the Hillary Clinton campaign has done, I think all the mayors in America would agree, is have a detailed plan about how that money actually gets down to the ground fast.

Patience, time and money accommodate all things.