Michael Chertoff Quotes

The larger point is this: We've invested over half a billion dollars in New York since this department was stood up. We've given New York more money, by more than double, than any other city in the country.

Unfortunately, every time there's a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.

Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

A philanthropic venture requires all the energy, knowledge and money from its founder that a company requires from the leadership team.

There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we're probably wasting a great deal of homeland security money trying to be politically correct, when we really need to make sure that our cities get the money they need.

Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?

On Lock, Stock, we didn't know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from.

When you're making an independent film, it's like this actor plus this actor equals this funding, this financing. Pull this actor out, this actor is still here but this money's gone. It's this frightening puzzle mosaic that is the world of independent film.

The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose.

Title IX came along and changed a lot of things for the better, but nevertheless, it meant that money became more important.

I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money.

The biggest challenge is to build the team and start the company, while hiring people, raising money, building a brand which has no history, all at the same time. You're doing a lot of things that in an established company are already done.

The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.

Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money the world's problems will be solved.

I make sure that New York gets more than its fair share.

Governors would like the money to be left on a stump and let them come and pick it up and spend it where they want. Governors like to spread money around rather than target it.

Wherever the dominant culture is, that’s where the money goes.

Without sufficient funds, nothing could be efficiently done.

I can get billions of dollars with comparative ease, but when I get down to the practical proposition about personnel … all of those billions are futile unless you provide the highly trained personnel.

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

We are improving the entirety of the system. You have got to make the grants available.

The rate of growth of the relevant population is much greater than the rate of growth in funds, though funds have gone up very nicely. But we have been producing students at a rapid rate; they're competing for funds and therefore they're more frustrated. I think there's a certain sense of weariness in the intellectual realm, it's not in any way peculiar to economics, it's a general proposition.

One of the things that the Hillary Clinton campaign has done, I think all the mayors in America would agree, is have a detailed plan about how that money actually gets down to the ground fast.

I was fortunate to get a scholarship when I went to Lehigh University and Princeton. They were both wonderful schools. Somebody was kind enough to spend their money to educate people that they would never get to know. That's what I think philanthropy is about.