Funding Priorities Quotes

The Broad research center represents the highest quality model of what Proposition 71 should be funding.

No funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons.

I can't think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying.

I'm not an expert on the ways of Washington [but] it makes no sense to me that we're not funding control of our border.

We have to start grounding our policies in facts and recognize that a strong economy is critical for funding progressive priorities.

I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there." There might as well be, "Arsibalt said, "but most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water and bombs. There is only so much that can be scraped together for particle accelerators.

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.

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

Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.

I feel like a lot of funders of documentaries today want to fund films that have a social message that is going to yield results.

I have a long attention span, and I am also a good scientist, and there are a lot of problems that remain in the organic agricultural movement that the government does not invest in solving.

When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.

No cuts to health , no cuts to education, no cuts to pensions.

Education policy ... has not been driven by sound educational considerations. It has been driven by the budget process.

Historians will not fail to note that a people who could spend $300 billion on defense refused to spend a tiny fraction of that total to keep their libraries open in the evening.

This president [Barack Obama] is undermining our military. This president is more interested in funding Planned Parenthood than in funding the military.

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

Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.

We’re number one in public executions and number 49 in funding public of education … we are even lower than Mississippi.

Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

I'm not someone who funds buildings. That doesn't interest me. I'm more interested in programs.

I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.

Programs that bring the arts to young kids are always the first to be cut. It's mind-boggling to me.

We need to cut these things that aren't constitutionally mandated, that are kind of on the periphery, the fluffery, like NPR and National Endowment for the Arts. Those are obvious.

There are many cases in which gifted children have done great things without special school programs. There are also gifted kids who have been to special schools and achieved nothing that has benefited the world as a whole. Without solid evidence, I have no confidence that funding school programs for the intellectually gifted would do more good than the most cost-effective programs to help people in extreme poverty.