Paul Sadler Quotes

I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money.

Fundraising is very, very time-consuming.

I'm always put in the unfortunate position of asking people to donate money and people I know in bands to play benefit concerts and all this stuff.

You can make the First Lady's job whatever you want it to be. To some women the job is more involved with the entertaining. They feel at home doing the things at home.

I try to be in the office as much as possible to get the full experience working with volunteers, making phone calls, putting out signs - things that the communications director probably normally wouldn't do.

Pence is a fan of fundraising and does enjoy doing it.

Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.

I want to get involved in causes I believe in, and I know so many others that want to also get involved, but it's hard to know how. Often, it's through big organisations, and you don't know exactly where your money is going or what effect you are having.

We went around and looked and talked to a lot of foundations with those charities and decided upon the Children's Hospital. They had a golf tournament at the time, but it was a small event that didn't raise a significant amount of money.

I've been entrepreneurial since middle school. I was always arranging bake sales, dances and school trips to raise money for the Dalton School.

My wife and I started a program called Bears Without Borders. We raise money and hire local artisans to make stuffed animals and distribute them in their communities.

We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference.

I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.

You know, I respect what Howard Dean has been able to do. It's good for our party. But I've got to tell you this: If money alone decided presidential nominations, Phil Gramm would have been nominated in '96.

I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.

Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money.

There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.

I am hoping to be able to lend my support to a Sickle Cell charity in the near future, as I want to try and help raise money and awareness about this disease.

Even though it's become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it's still effective and it still has to be done.

If I can raise attention to a cause, I will.

I don't think anyone enjoys raising money, but for some reason I seem to have a knack.

Congressmen spend between five and seven hours a day on the phone, begging for money.

URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.

I am a very lucky guy. I can testify before Congress. I can raise funds. I can raise awareness.

Non-profits must become deeply engaged in the ways that their donor communities are using social technology.