Richard Cohen Quotes

I'm on the advisory board of Alex's Lemonade Stand, which is a children's cancer charity. I'm so proud to be on that and help them.

I'm very interested in charities. I help a lot of different charities.

As you might imagine, I'm approached by lots of organizations and lots of people who want me to support their various charitable efforts in some way. And I look at those requests, and I basically try to do what I can.

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.

I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.

I support Children's Hospital of Los Angeles through Disney Channel and Britti Cares International in support of children with various diseases and illnesses and donate my time with pride and dignity.

But there are many, and I'm a supporter of a great deal of charities.

Jessica Simpson is the youth ambassador for Operation Smile, and an episode of The Apprentice featured a team managing a charity concert she put on. Donald Trump came on stage and pledged a donation.

I don't know if people understand that there are different ways to raise money for great causes.

It feels really good to give back. I'm opening the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness Centre in Australia.

For charity purposes, how do I help? A lot of prospective levers and tools have come into my life.

One of my dreams in life is to do fund-raising for the youth.

My goal is to work diligently to become the top philanthropist in the world.

I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nine years old.

When I was a little girl, I remember carrying my orange UNICEF carton with me as I went Trick-or-Treating.

I play bad golf for good charities like the LA Police.

I've long wanted to find a charitable cause to really get involved with and be passionate about. I get invited to a lot of charity events to sing, and I am happy to help and bring a source of entertainment, but I'm sort of disconnected from them.

I became convinced that there was greater satisfaction from giving my money away and seeing something come out of the ground, like a hospital or a university.

I like to try to give something back to the community because I feel fortunate for how I was raised and how my life turned out. Each year, with the help of my brother, Grant, we run a charity golf tournament to raise money for the Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy.

People pigeonhole me - I'm known for raising more money than any man alive.

You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause.

Meeting people who want to start a charity, help out their families, or raise money for a good cause has been really fun.

I have been raising money for the past 14 years for diabetes research.

My main commitment is to Caudwell Children. I put more than £1m a year into the charity, besides a lot of time and effort.

I'm honored. Really honored that the Red Sox have asked me to possible be on the board of the Red Sox Foundation and do some stuff on their charitable works that they are so passionate about.