Quotes about Funding

I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.

I don't think religious groups should be allowed to apply for federal funds to start new ministries they have not been doing before the funding was available.

Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.

Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.

If we all got kicked off the staff and the board, and an outside group (a group of leaders who were fearlessly committed to the mission of this church) took our place, what changes would they introduce?68 What's the first thing they would do? Who would they replace? What would they refuse to fund?

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

Why should the government subsidize intellectual curiosity?

We should fund the armies of compassion, we should not discriminate against faith-based programs.

We always have more ideas than we can fund.

If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences.

We can say, "if you want government money, you have to make this data public - you have to share it."