Quotes of Fund - somelinesforyou

“ I recently met with the finance minister of the Palestinian Authority, was very impressed by his grasp of finances. ”

- George W. Bush

“ Those who say there's no problem and there's plenty of time are offering a misleading argument that the Social Security Trust Fund somehow has assets that can be used to draw upon starting in 12 years to pay benefits, but the trust fund does not contain cash or bonds or stocks to turn into funds… ”

- Paul Ryan

“ The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision. ”

- Haley Barbour

“ My budget is a solid, balanced plan that allows us to make real, sustainable progress and provides the revenue necessary to fund our priorities. ”

- Michael F. Easley

“ I would hope that we would treat these funds as help for health-related problems for our citizens, not a bonanza of bucks for politicians to fund pet projects. ”

- Mike Huckabee

“ While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis. ”

- Carl Levin

“ The new rule of thumb is that 80% of a president's time must be spent in raising funds for their schools. ”

- James E. Rogers

“ Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. ”

- William Butler Yeats

“ When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin. ”

- Mae West

“ Of course I'm doing something about my overdraft: I'm seeing my accountant. ”

- Barry Fantoni

“ Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets. ”

- Henry Miller

“ The wages of sin are death, but the benefits include dental, major medical, two week paid vacation, pension fund, and stock options. Actually, taken as a package, it's a rather attractive deal. ”

- Tim Mefford

“ Girls just want to have funds. ”

- Adrienne Gusoff

“ Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other. ”

- Oscar Ameringer

“ Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order. ”

- Lord Hanson

“ If you don't get the funding sources out to where the action is, funds will soon dry up because the sources' interest had never been whetted. ”

- John W. Hechinger

“ Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God — the rest will be given. ”

- Harold Ross

“ It strkes me as singularly inappropriate for a school to use its students for fund-raising. It reminded me of the first time I saw a gypsy mother send her baby out to beg. ”

- William Hamilton

“ Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fund doing it? ”

- Charles Connolly

“ There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ There are no bad fund raisers and there are no bad Fundraising campaigns. There are only bad visions and dreams. ”

- Robert Schuller

“ There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. ”

- Donald H. McGannon

“ It is time that we take control and find a way to curtail the explosive costs of health care. Small businesses deserve a chance to channel these funds toward other needs, such as expanding and creating more jobs for the economy. ”

- Christopher Bond

“ When lack of funds prevents hospitals from functioning efficiently and fully, private philanthropy of all kinds must help. The difference it makes in terms of human betterment, represents the kind of happiness that money really can buy. ”

- Henry T. Heald

“ Mozart's job classification was to write music, which he did for ballets and operas. He got paid to do that, and taught on the side. He wasn't a waiter. He didn't sell mutual funds. Those are all noble professions, but if you want to be a professional composer, then you're writing dramatic music for film and television. ”

- Bill Conti

“ The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income. ”

- Alma Guillermoprieto

“ Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land. ”

- Daniel Inouye

“ Where I'm from we don't trust paper. Wealth is what's here on the premisis. If I open a cupboard and see, say, 30 cans of tomato sauce and a five-pound bag of rice, I get a little thrill of well-being-much more so than if I take a look at the quarterly dividend report from my mutual fund. ”

- Garrison Keillor

“ I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubble's power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe. ”

- Barbara Mikulski
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