Funding Restrictions Quotes

Women who become pregnant through rape or incest should not qualify for government-funded abortions unless their pregnancy is life-threatening.

What we need to do is have empathy and that ultimately, at the end of the day, it's a woman's private choice... I don't support federal funding for abortions, nor do I support late-term abortions.

If you put these five things together - you can't use money to attract talent, you can't advertise, you can't take risks, you can't invest in long-term results, and you don't have a stock market - then we have just put the humanitarian sector at the most extreme disadvantage to the for-profit sector on every level, and then we call the whole system charity, as if there is something incredibly sweet about it.

It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.

Sure, President Bush can say that the U.S. government won't fund stem cell research, but believe me, Japan is applauding. Because they will just do it first and get all the patents.

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.

I do think there is a clear distinction between freedom of expression as a concept, which is something I would defend forever, and the limit or license to use the taxpayer's money in a way that may be objectionable to a great many people.

Federal dollars and resources come with so much red tape that state and local experts can't use that funding for initiatives that are working the best or are most needed.