Quotes About Donors

#1. When donors visited the Black Panther Party, they came and saw our real programs, a real clinic, with real doctors and medics, giving service to people.

Bobby Seale

#2. I want to limit the effects of the power of donors, no question about it.

David Brooks

#3. Banks and donors and charities claimed to have had successes in Mozambique. I suspected they invented these successes to justify their existence.

Paul Theroux

#4. The president's attempted diktat takes money from bondholders and gives it a labor union that delivers money and votes for him ... Shaking down lenders for the benefit of political donors is recycled corruption and the abuse of power.

Cliff Asness

#5. My goal is to spread the word about the need for more blood donors.

Niki Taylor

#6. As the state's top lawyer, I am empowered to protect nonprofit donors from fraudulent solicitations and charitable assets from misuse.

Eric Schneiderman

#7. This apology is not just to Bernie Sanders. It is to donors. It is to anyone and everyone that clearly we offended. And the e-mails that were revealed that were hacked.

Donna Brazile

#8. One reason citizens, politicians and university donors sometimes lack confidence in the social sciences is that social scientists too often miss the chance to declare victory and move on to new frontiers.

Nicholas A. Christakis

#9. America used to live by the motto "Father Knows Best." Now we're lucky if "Father Knows He Has Children." We've become a nation of sperm donors and baby daddies.

Stephen Colbert

#10. $100,000 donors buy access to Congress and the White House. We believe it's long past time to clean up Washington.

William J. Clinton

#11. In Maine, we are fortunate to have a Clean Elections system that allows legislators to turn down corporate special interest money. At the national level, Congress should follow Maine's example by empowering the voices of small donors.

Chellie Pingree

#12. Wealthy givers and mastery of making donors happy have made Ms. Bonner, 48, among the most

Anonymous

#13. Turn strangers into friends. Turn friends into donors. And then do the most important job: Turn your donors into fundraisers.

Seth Godin

#14. If you create a system that makes the small donors the linchpin of the system in terms of how members of Congress directly raise the funds for their campaigns, then it gives everyday citizens much more of a role - a leveraging role - in the funding of those campaigns.

John Sarbanes

#15. Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.

Irwin Redlener

#16. I've heard shit about men with beards. I know they're orgasm donors and you definitely needed a donation." (Madison to Avalon) Lol, loved that quote! ;))

Victoria Ashley

#17. The foundations set up as tax shelters by the wealthy tended to spend as much money glorifying the donors' names and providing cushy jobs for their friends

Anne Stuart

#18. If more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened ... but people like to keep what's theirs, even after they're dead.

Neal Shusterman

#19. I hope more people decide to become organ donors.

Donna Reed

#20. We are always in awe of what the donors have done in terms of providing of themselves to the recipients. It really is a heroic act because people take on themselves not only a risk of death but also pain-and-suffering in order for their loved one to get the benefit of the liver transplant.

John Roberts

#21. She's [Hillary Clinton] been there for 30 years. She's not going to change. Because you look at her donors.

Donald Trump

#22. In my opinion, Donald Trump lives a life of loving and helping others as Jesus taught in the great commandment. He cannot be bought; he's not a puppet on a string like many other candidates ... who have wealthy donors as their puppet masters.

Jerry Falwell Jr.

#23. Some charities treat donors like cash machines. Until now there hasn't been any effective way for them to provide a more personal or interactive giving experience.

Ben Rattray

#24. The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the related Accra Agenda for Action, are useful policy instruments that set out the mutual responsibilities of donors and recipient countries.

Margaret Chan

#25. At a time when special interest money is being showered on legislators in Washington, grassroots donors offer members of Congress a refreshing independence. The $25 and $50 donor is not looking for special favors. He or she is simply expecting their Congressman to go do the right thing.

John Sarbanes

#26. Donors, like voters, increasingly expect candidates to exercise fiscal discipline.

Mark McKinnon

#27. I'm involved in quite a few ministries as a bridge builder, trying to match generous givers and donors to other ministries. Based on my past, I'm also involved in mainly the prison ministry. I go to jails and prisons and share my story, trying to give them some hope.

Lex Luger

#28. Steve Thomas Rooney embraces a simple concept of providing a hand up versus a hand out to families in need. We are deeply grateful to volunteers, donors and other supporters around the world who help us with this life-changing work

Steve Thomas

#29. A cousin of mine who was a casualty surgeon in Manhattan tells me that he and his colleagues had a one-word nickname for bikers: Donors. Rather chilling.

Stephen Fry

#30. Once the violence has ceased, the US should immediately call on the World Bank and other international institutions to convene a donors conference to rebuild Lebanon's shattered infrastructure.

John Conyers

#31. It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?

Adam Braun

#32. The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush's wealthiest donors. But hardworking Americans will see through this president's efforts to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon.

Howard Dean

#33. You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption to do that.

Michele Bachmann

#34. Donors want to meet famous people, and getting a high profile draw for a fundraiser is one way to boost both the crowd and the cash. It's why the president and the vice president are always in demand. These folks are in demand because people around the country want to meet them.

Carl Forti

#35. The incumbents just have a ton more money because they have rigged the system to help themselves, because they have these networks of small donors. Meanwhile, the amount of people, the incumbents being reelected has just been - that has been going up and up and up.

David Brooks

#36. The bloggers and online donors represent an important resource for the party, but they are not representative of the majority you need to win elections,

Steve Elmendorf

#37. International donors, our friends, should demand results; impose results. The fact of giving money is not helping if you give money to honest people and there is no structure to manage that money. It is not helping.

Michel Martelly

#38. The last thing it [government] ought to do is to ground its proceedings on the ignorance of the people, - to yield them that which they will hereafter despise the donors for granting them.

Harriet Martineau

#39. In my home state of Maine, we've seen out-of-state groups with anonymous donors spend millions of dollars to campaign against issues that don't fit their agenda.

Chellie Pingree

#40. Businesses acting as businesses, not as charitable donors, are the most powerful force for addressing the pressing issues society face(s)

Tony Elumelu

#41. If there were ever a cadaver eligible for sainthood, it would not be our Spalding Gray upon the cross, it would be these guys: the brain-dead, beating-heart organ donors that come and go in our hospitals every day.

Mary Roach

#42. We used to be Kings now we are beggars. We used to be leaders, now we are dogs We used to be fathers now we are sperm donors. Now we have nothing. No dignity, no honor and no self respect..

Jill Thrussell

#43. That was my Malawian epiphany. Only Africans were capable of making a difference in Africa. All the others, donors and volunteers and bankers, however idealistic, were simply agents of subversion.

Paul Theroux

#44. Ethiopia's government is doing a commendable job of working closely with donors and humanitarian organizations to educate parents about child marriage, and to support organizations like the Hamlin Fistula Hospital.

Helene D. Gayle

#45. We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress.

Nick Lampson

#46. If money is a form of speech, as the Supreme Court has regrettably found, rich donors will always be the loudest speakers.

Howard Dean

#47. God is pleased continually to vary His mode of dealing with us, in order that we may not be tempted to trust in donors, or in circumstances, but in Him alone, and to keep our eye fixed upon Him.

George Muller

#48. Traditional charity is still fairly focused on how it makes donors feel as opposed to outcomes for people that need help.

Leila Janah

#49. I owe my life to blood donors. They went out, rolled up a sleeve and gave me another chance at life.

Niki Taylor

#50. Those of us in positions of responsibility, we'll need to be less concerned with the judgment of special interests and well-connected donors, and more concerned with the judgment of posterity.

Barack Obama

#51. But most importantly, we can all be donors. It does not matter how old you are, your race, where you live; all of us can give the gift of life.

Jay Inslee

#52. We created a line of pet food called Nutrish that's made to human standards, and 100 percent of the proceeds go to animal rescue. One of our top-tier donors is the ASPCA, and they help us challenge animal shelters all across the country to get more animals placed in homes.

Rachael Ray

#53. Charities must treat donors as if they were shareholders.

Arpad Busson

#54. We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.

Ed Gillespie

#55. Donors need to know what their money is being used for.

Michel Martelly

#56. My donors have always tended to do much better than expected.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#57. To get pregnant, I have resorted to artificial insemination. I want to openly talk about it because this is an opportunity to show my gratitude to all those anonymous donors who help many women to meet, like me, the dream of their life.

Monica Cruz

#58. Of course, if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened ... but people like to keep what's theirs, even after their dead. It didnt take long for ethics to be crushed by greed. Unwinding became big business, and people let it happen

Neal Shusterman

#59. What a tremendous act of generosity on the part of the donors who made this possible and what a tremendous opportunity for all these children in Kalamazoo public schools who can now go to college and chase their dreams.

Jennifer Granholm

#60. By 2009, [Richard] DeVos's son, Dick and daughter-in-law Betsy were major donors on the Koch lust and facing a $5.2 million civil fine of their own for violating Ohio's campaign-finance laws.

Jane Mayer

#61. If you need to raise funds from donors, you need to study them, respect them, and build everything you do around them.

Jeff Brooks

#62. Critics of the system say they want to get enough people involved to dilute the handful of wealthy donors and big-money groups who are essentially drowning out everybody else.

Anonymous

#63. Jerry Falwell turned gay bashing into a very successful art form ... the first fundamentalist to exploit the fear and loathing of homosexuals to raise hundreds of millions of dollars and add millions of new donors to his mailing list.

Mel White

#64. The use of fetuses as organ and tissue donors is a ticking time bomb of bioethics.

Arthur Caplan

#65. The spread of online information isn't just good for charities. It's also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their work.

Bill Gates

#66. In the meantime, we see there are charities that spend much of their scarce resources that should be going directly to the children to overcome this gulf that separates them from both the donors and the needy.

Dana Rohrabacher

#67. Zimbabweans are severely malnourished, and deaths from starvation occur even in the cities. The country has not yet suffered nationwide famine only because international donors have stepped in.

Samantha Power

#68. The more you start prohibiting donors, the more you are going to have less blood in the supply. It's still not clear you can get it from blood transfusions.

Arthur Caplan

#69. I agree that you might clone some people who would look amazingly like their parental cell donors, but the odds are that they'd be almost as different as you or me, and certainly more different than any of today's identical twins.

Lewis Thomas

#70. Removal of an organ is difficult and dangerous. There have been several deaths of healthy donors. I think myself, I would be hesitant to participate as a liver donor. It's a very tricky operation.

Joe Murray

#71. The bottom line is, I hear my donors, I hear our base out there, I hear the leadership. And we're taking steps to make sure that we're even more - how shall we say it - fiscally conservative in our spending and certainly making sure the dollars are there when it's time to run our campaigns.

Michael Steele

#72. In interviews with dozens of black advisers, friends, donors and allies, few said they had ever heard Mr. Obama muse on the experience of being the first black president of the United States, a role in which every day he renders what was once extraordinary almost ordinary.

Jodi Kantor

#73. I owe my life to blood donors. I'm forever grateful to people who donate.

Niki Taylor

#74. The very definition of the innate hollowness of leading a political life when you end up on your nearest and dearest moments or most personal evenings with donors. That should - that should tell you all you need to know about the ramble that is politics.

Dennis Miller

#75. 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.

Leila Janah

#76. What's novel today is the outspoken way that powerful donors admit and even champion the fact that gift-giving is a useful vehicle for preserving privilege, something that distinguishes them from earlier donors.

Linsey McGoey

#77. It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors.

Vic Snyder

#78. Donors don't win elections; voters win elections.

Jeff Sessions

#79. Human rights groups are locked in a fierce competition for big checks from wealthy donors and they need to generate big headlines.

Paul Kagame

#80. That's why they're in the problem - having the problem they're having. They're not conservative. They're being run by their donors.

Rush Limbaugh

#81. Too many voters are already bought
not by corporate campaign donors, but by the government itself.

Joseph Sobran

#82. By law, super PACs are required to disclose their donors. There are groups that have never had to disclose their donors, non-profits such as the Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood, the NAACP, and the NRA. If you want more disclosure, super PACs are a step forward.

Bradley A. Smith

#83. Almost all philanthropy is by definition undemocratic, its priorities set by wealthy donors and boards of trustees, who by extension can shape the direction of public policy in faraway communities.

Dale Russakoff

#84. Kidney donors don't have to be close relatives of recipients, but they do need to have the right blood type. And kidneys from living donors tend to last many years longer than kidneys from deceased donors.

Virginia Postrel

#85. Public financing would fix campaign donor problems.

Hillary Clinton

#86. When asked by a prospective donor how much he should give, the best reply is, "Give until you are proud."

Paul Ireland

#87. It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.

Christiaan Barnard

#88. Charity always feels better to the donor than to the recipient.

Joy Browne

#89. Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor.

Ovid

#90. I think you have a lot to offer ... not necessarily as a person, but as an organ donor.

Dov Davidoff

#91. To have my life accepted as just another ordinary life, to have it viewed as common and regular, was a singular moment.

Katherine A. Briccetti

#92. Charity with a smile shows the donor's character.

Nachman Of Breslov

#93. The man who receives gifts from God, receives an appointment from God; namely, that of donor; and the wisdom to discharge the functions connected with this appointment will surely not be withheld, if it be ingenuously asked.

George Bowen