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When my trust fund ran out, I panicked. I have a lot of admiration for the kids who come to the big city with nothing and make it.
We should not be waiting until trains derail, bridges collapse and people die to adequately fund our transportation infrastructure.
Federal gas tax revenues that are paid into the trust fund by highway users should be used for programs that benefit highway users.
They don't fund the arts enough and they so often take words and music for granted and performers for granted - particularly women.
Through the Fellows Program, Acumen Fund prepares future global leaders with the tools necessary to drive significant social change.
I am committed to the people who are sick and tired of seeing their tax dollars being used to fund unethical people and corporations.
There will not be any investment or movement or growth in any region of the world without the voice of the Saudi sovereign wealth fund.
We'll fund a project even if I'm skeptical because I'd rather be proven wrong by somebody on the inside than by somebody on the outside.
I'll occasionally go and do an honor like the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund because it raises money for a very worthy organization.
Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.
I work for the Global Fund for Women, an organization that is actively supporting women's rights groups in 160 countries around the world.
If we don't like the Human Rights Council, then let's not fund it. We should pick and choose cafeteria style which groups we want to help.
Seniors are concerned about Medicare and Social Security. I advocated in Congress a separate and distinct lockbox fund for Social Security.
I've always believed that if you support reform or you support a particular idea that you ought to fund that idea first and not the system.
At the end of the day, VCs have to provide their limited partners with great returns, or they aren't going to be able to raise another fund.
The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.
I'm grateful for the time, energy, creativity and effort each artist has brought to the project to further the mission of The Lunchbox Fund.
ICG wasn't an index fund so much as a collection of venture-capital investments focused on so-called business-to-business Internet companies.
Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
An independent Scotland could afford pensions full stop - after all, it is our taxes and national insurance contributions that fund them now.
You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit.
The Actors Fund is a human services organization, so our focus has been on caring for the entire human as opposed to dealing with the disease.
If we choose to ignore science and refuse to fund important scientific research, we voluntarily cede our place as a world leader in innovation.
The pushback I get is, 'He's a hedge fund guy.' Full stop. Some places, that can be a badge of honor. In others, it's almost a term of derision.
If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.
I would love to raise a fund or get some awesome empowered women together and put together an advisory board to get behind female entrepreneurs.
You either have to find a way to be really creative materially, or you better have a trust fund. And, last I checked, I didn't have a trust fund.
The actions of hedge fund managers in exercising their fiduciary responsibilities to their investors is not the reason why Chrysler is in jeopardy.
It's definitely much harder to run a hedge fund today than it used to be, in my opinion. That's because there are more hedge funds to compete with.
Anti-gun groups, most of which are funded by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, have done little to promote or fund real gun safety programs.
I am a Democrat; I want to fund programs that help people. In order to do that, you need to have revenues and you have revenues when you have jobs.
A permanent, growing fund for student aid will help all Oregonians afford needed education and training and build a path towards a stronger future.
There's accountability in the mutual fund industry. And they've been tremendous engines of wealth for people and they're going to continue to be so.
The best way to end poverty is to simply give people work, which isn't considered 'sexy' among donors who want to fund a preschool or cure a disease.
We are awash in content that needs to be taught, yet the vast majority of colleges give a large portion of their faculties' salaries to fund research.
In reality, Senator Shelby's Financial Regulatory Improvement Act is nothing more than a wish list for the Wall Street bankers that fund his campaign.
For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.
We need to fund our troops. We need to protect them. We need to increase homeland security. These are vital national security interest we need to fund.
In my state, I created a Clean Energy Fund and invested in electrifying our transportation system - from vehicles and buses to transit and even ferries.
I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.
Tonight, I am pleased to announce that I have secured $1 million from the Convention Host Committee to fund the beautification of Boston's neighborhoods.
One time, a hedge fund gentleman in Connecticut brought in a bunch of professional wrestlers and myself at a very hefty price for his son's 11th birthday.
You have a burden going into any campaign when you're raising money to fund that effort because there's always a desire to spend more money than you have.
For a number of major companies, if you can't access the commercial markets, you can't fund your business. That's a big problem. You can't pay your bills.
Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder farmers.
Here I am just trying to fund myself to play a sport, but the greater picture is that I'm a female athlete really pushing the envelope for women in sports.
The Fashion Fund celebrates the real passion that underlies the fashion business, not the frothy world of glamour and celebrity that so often surrounds it.
The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?
I'm thankful for what I've got, but I'm cramming all my money into a trust fund because I don't ever want to look around and wonder where all my money went.
Insider trading by hedge funds has a long and distinguished history, dating to the days when people didn't know that there was such a thing as a hedge fund.