Top 124 Donations Quotes & Sayings

Donations from private sectors can be flexibly used and greatly appreciated, as they will give my research an outlook for a long period of time.

My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School.

While accepting donations, no one looks at the colour of money.

If you compare charitable donations, you name it, religious tithing, giving, Americans trump citizens of the world hands down.

Britain First has deeply ignoble form on trying to 'hijack' the poppy to increase their popularity and donations.

There are some terrorist organizations, there are some organized crime organizations, that launder money through charities and make donations to charities. That's not the purpose of charitable donations in Canada, so we're becoming increasingly strict on the subject.

People used to call me for donations, and I couldn't relate to that because I have spent most of my life trying to support myself.

I took and received campaign donations under the existing laws.

Rarely do political contributions lead to direct quid pro quo transactions - donations for votes - and those that cross this line normally get caught.

Paloma wool and all of the British Heart Foundation shops - I love checking out the latest donations to find quality, preloved pieces that no one else will have.

Donations to my legal defense fund really help, and I think keeping me motivated and spreading the message are also very important.

Religions take donations and don't pay taxes.

Government unions should not be allowed to influence the public officials they are lobbying, and sitting across the bargaining table from, through campaign donations and expenditures.

Allegations that President Clinton pardoned Marc Rich partly in return for donations to his presidential library have raised questions about the value of such institutions and the federal appropriations that support them.

Public employee unions are hardly the only group involved in bare-knuckles politics. Businesses lobby fiercely, and executives make hefty campaign donations.

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

Food banks have told us of the increasing donations of, and demand for, tampons and pads which are gratefully received by women struggling to afford them.

Such pushy people, the school union chiefs.It's almost not worth the campaign donations. Almost.

I do things - whether it's donations or events for good causes or giving back to my community - for the right reason: because I want to. Because it's the best thing to do. I wanna help someone else out.

Those who live off of the donations of capitalism are often its greatest critics.

As soon as we find a cure, we will utilize any of the donations to go toward providing medication to those who can't afford it. That is my goal.

I started this foundation when I was diagnosed. It was established for one reason, and that was to try to find a cure for MS. Every penny, 100% of the public donations that come into this are given back out in the form of grants to colleges and researchers around the world.

If you take donations from Wall Street, you can't be independent.

Poverty isn’t solved with donations.

You cannot develop a country on donations.

Obviously, a lot of non-profits live on donations, and that's a wonderful thing. But higher education can't exist on donations only because, if that were the case, we would have a hard time paying teachers adequate salaries.

I have been the beneficiary of donations in the form of human tissue and of a cornea which gave me sight when otherwise I would have none.

When people make donations to non profits, they want to know that their money goes to good use.

Money and donations are an important part of our political system. They are hard power.

Passing the SAT: My personal theory is that it has to do with how much money you send them in the mail. I think the amounts they tell you to send are actually just suggested minimum donations - if you get my drift.

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

We've investigated the gun lobby and its political donations and how it spread the Stand Your Ground laws from Florida.

African-Americans don't need handouts and donations; we can hire ourselves if white corporate America does business with us in a fair and equitable way.

If we got rid of everybody in Washington who sold access for donations, then the town would be empty. But it's unseemly.

I have a lot of supporters but they are not well organized. They send me donations but for the most part, their commitment is not really serious.

Oxytocin infusion increases generosity in unilateral monetary transfers by 80 percent [and] increases donations to charity by 50 percent.

No doubt the political left will say that foreign donations to the Obama campaign are a 'phantom' problem. However, there is physical evidence.

Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.

If Palestinian Authority refuse to join the US-run negotiations, their basis for support would collapse. They survive on donations essentially. Israel has made sure that it's not a productive economy.

I've made it clear that I'm not taking special interest PAC money or accepting donations from lobbyists - ever. I want to represent the interests of the citizens.

I used the principles of Kickstarter to make 'She's Gotta Have It.' We filmed that in 1985 to 1986. The final cost was $175,000. I didn't have that money. It was friends, grants, donations. We saved our bottles for the nickel deposit.

Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American or European elections. They don't make donations to political parties or hire lobbyists in D.C., London or Canberra.

While normal people have to disclose donations directly to a candidate, there is no such transparency on people donating to certain types of nonprofit organizations that can play a major role in our elections.

What we have are - some of the big political donors behind the super PACs are big on promoting more of these trade agreements which cost us jobs - another reason that we need to end political action committees and have only individual donations with their donations being disclosed completely with names and addresses and other information.

If I take donations from Big Corporates to fund our election campaign, I'll be accountable to them and would have to do what they tell me to do after winning elections. But if I take donations from common people to fund our Election Campaign, after winning, I'll be accountable to them

I find joy in giving donations.

Investments are a real partnership, with an expected return; donations are a gesture made as a result of ethical, religious, or political passions.

Yeah, I get a lot of donations. It's a lot. I'm getting money all the time.

When you have God come amongst you to support and sustain you, why grovel through crude vulgar entities? Avoid places where they bargain in terms of gifts, donations, for Spiritual guidance and Transmission.

For scientific researchers, charitable donations are enormous engines of new opportunities.

All Politicians should be required to wear uniforms like Racing Car Drivers with patches showing the donations received from special interest groups so we know who has paid them off!

Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.

I support Planned Parenthood privately with my personal contribution, and that should be the goal of any such agency, to find private donations.

I think people forget that it doesn't take a big donation to help someone, just a lot of little donations.

I am a full-time Research Fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a small 501(c)(3) public charity supported primarily by individual donations.

We already ban foreign donations to political candidates, and we should strengthen that ban with closer scrutiny of credit card donations.

To every politician who is taking donations from the NRA, shame on you.

It is my principle never to accept any donations from any government or any foreign funded organisation.

I'd rather have a lot of little donations than a couple big ones. That shows that people care and are giving what they can.

The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies.