Raisers Quotes

#1. Obama's the one who never worked a day in his life. He never earned a penny that wasn't public money. How many fund-raisers does he attend every week? How often does he play basketball and golf? I wish I had that kind of time.

Roger Ailes

#2. Now the Kids Classic is one of the major fund-raisers for Children's Hospital. Since we started seven years ago, we've raised more than $1 million for the hospital.

Tom Kite

#3. By the time I was 9, I was frequently asked to play exhibitions at grand openings, fund-raisers for charities, and other special events.

Tracy Austin

#4. Now we have some lawyers in our firm hosting fund-raisers for both candidates in any contested race. Guaranteed juice no matter who wins.

Randy Singer

#5. This one is for our crew, but it's also for all the weird girls and word nerds, for all the in-the-middle wickeds and queers and misfits and hell-raisers.

Laura Goode

#6. In what you have called your nonbarbarian societies, children (and wives, and husbands, for that matter) are thought of as property, as personal possessions, and child-bearers must therefore become child-raisers, because they must take care of what they "own.

Neale Donald Walsch

#7. I think he could have made most of the trips and gone to most of the fund-raisers if he would have avoided the partisan rhetoric and talked to the country as President in each of these appearances rather than to the narrow partisan audiences.

Robert Teeter

#8. I did not see any major issues other than the jury substitutions. I can't know whether there's a problem there, until I read the transcript from the in-chambers conference, when those jurors were excused.

Catherine Crier

#9. Two opposing gospels are fighting one another for the soul of our nation and, increasingly, the world: the gospel of consumption and the gospel of peace.

Leonard Sweet

#10. Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.

Vladimir Nabokov

#11. Unfortunately, you know, working in a spirit of cooperation and respect requires someone else to reach back, and I don't think that's happened and it's been disappointing because the debate in our country has become so rancorous.

Karen Hughes

#12. Thought for today: Douchey people are going to find a way to be douchey no matter what you do or how badly you want them not to be.

Kathryne Donovan

#13. They were trying to discover a cure for the toxin," I said.
"It doesn't matter what the intentions were or what the logic was behind the decision. What matters is that six million people died." Quain gasped in mock horror. "Unless those six million people are pretending to be dead.

Maria V. Snyder

#14. I don't think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different game, and to play it better than anyone has any right to believe is possible.

Seth Godin

#15. Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

James Stephens

#16. Nothing could hide the dancing darkness of a nightmare that was soul deep.

Antoinette Turner

#17. The American people are becoming more and more afraid of, and are running away from, their own revolution.

Leonard Read

#18. Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer from it that increases.

Francoise Sagan

#19. The still, sad music of humanity.

John Greenleaf Whittier