Today most funding for science comes through government. That means that you have to be known to be sympathetic to conclusions that are acceptable to the political classes.
To me, we never get enough funding. In New York, we are clearly the number one terrorist target in the country.
Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s mouth.
I don't think most conservatives are against access to birth control, but they are wary of funding things like Planned Parenthood.
I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.
It's easier to get funding for a gas station than to start the next Facebook or Twitter in the Mideast.
I do believe that Planned Parenthood provides vital services to those in need and disagree with its funding cuts contained in the H.R. 1 package.
We have to start grounding our policies in facts and recognize that a strong economy is critical for funding progressive priorities.
As Congress battles over spending and cost cutting, it is imperative that funding for math education programs does not fall victim.
When I came into the job, funding for the humanities at the federal level was being drastically cut. This was the high tide of the new Republican Congress.
Full federal funding for presidential libraries should bring with it new rules of control over papers and artifacts.
If there's ever a moment when I am an Anglophile, it's when I see so many theatres in this country that have what I would call federal funding.
Businesses should absolutely set aside funding in their budgets for security consultants. Unless there is an expert on staff, and there usually is not, it needs to be outsourced.
There's a lot of funding of the media and film in particular, literary publishing gets recognized as culture. I think fashion should too.
There is a valid nationwide sentiment of concern over public pensions, and poor funding ratios are viewed negatively by financial markets.
Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security.
If funding for DHS is delayed, it will have a grave effect on Washington's economy as commerce grinds to a halt along the Canadian border.
If any mayor reduced school funding by 33 percent and called it the 'Strengthening Our Schools Initiative,' I think they'd be excoriated.
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.
I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can.
From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.
There is one funding suggestion that should be part of any transportation discussion, but most people don't want to talk about it - raising the gas tax.
Sometimes in Portland I'm like, 'Who is funding this city?' It's doing great - there's all these new shops; there's a synthesizer store. Where is this coming from?
Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.
The USPS is self-funding; it does not receive support from tax dollars, and it is required to serve the entire country.
I will tell you that my position is that funding bills should include as little money for Obamacare as possible.
To make the peaks higher.
[His reason to target philanthropic funding to only the best university science departments.]
The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.
There's a lot of egos in these countries, like the French, the Germans, et cetera, and so they keep funding and rehabilitating Yasser Arafat.
When people are feeling insecure about their jobs and there are cuts to be made, it's hard to put up an argument that the film industry needs funding.
The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
The U.S., France, Germany and Canada have all responded to the financial crisis by boosting rather than cutting their science funding. The U.K. has not.
Exceptional teaching requires more time and space for teachers to address the differing needs of a classroom, with assistance in staffing and funding.
Neurohumanities offers a way to tap the popular enthusiasm for science and, in part, gin up more funding for humanities.
Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized.
I think it's important we continue to find new ways for start-up businesses to get access to funding, mentorship and business advice.
Arizona is in the midst of a fiscal crisis. We've cut school funding. And they pass a bill questioning Obama's citizenship? For real?
If it is something particularly useful and for some reason is having trouble getting funding from traditional sources, I may be interested.
I believe in public funding of elections, absolutely. But this system iscurrently very antiquated and no longer applies to modern day politics.
Social safety-net spending is an important form of public funding that helps offset disparities in family resources for children.
I do support 'sanctuary cities,' and I would be a firm, non-negotiable 'no' vote on any deliberations that include the possibility of blocking funding for them.
People's taxes spent on servicing our national debt, instead of funding public services. This isn't just a waste - it's also a risk.
Governments cannot assume or expect that the ECB will always facilitate their funding independently of the achievement of their fiscal and other policy objectives.
People are getting older - that is a good thing - but there isn't enough funding in the system. And there's a whole number of injustices.
Conflicts are not temporary interruptions: they are structural, socio-economic catastrophes, and funding must be allocated accordingly.
Unlike Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, I never voted to provide taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood.
In a market where funding is hard to come by, if you're scaled already, then you are in a brilliant position because nobody is going to catch up with you.
I'd love DonorsChoose.org to become a place where teachers can post innovative, out-of-the-box projects that they can't get funding for traditionally.
Most troublesome is the legalization of 'crowd funding,' the ability of start-up companies to raise capital from small investors on the Internet.
I'm very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
Governments do have the duty to protect national interest. But we should not be afraid of foreign funding of Indian CSOs, unless malintent can be proved.
Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.
I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program.
Philanthropic funding can play a vital role in testing and stimulating innovation that, when proven, can be implemented at scale by business or government.
If you're not in the right classification, you're basically stealing funding and opportunities from other people. This is not the NFL. There's only so much money to go around.
I do think actually in this case the government does get credit for funding some of the basic research.
Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.
If I had a weak ego, and doubts about this, the first genome would not yet have been completed with US and UK government funding.
I will withhold federal funding from universities that shut down debate and can't stand different points of view.
I think the British government's cutting back of arts funding is such a crime. I bet it will happen in Denmark soon, too.
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