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We cannot simultaneously fight terrorism, we and our allies, while with the other hand we fund terrorism, arm terrorism and train terrorism.

Maybe the word welfare should be changed to something of, 'a transitional living fund.' For that is what it is - for people to be able to live.

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.

The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization.

While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis

But to hear Kennedy when he was grandstanding in front of the McClellan Committee you might have thought I was making as much out of the pension fund as the Kennedys made out of selling whiskey.

I should mention that I am a member of the board of directors of Dimensional Fund Advisors.

Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.

It's the company itself, but most of these mutual fund companies, the guy who runs the company is just a fact totem and the guy who runs the money is the power. But we really don't know who they are.

I don't think that a mutual fund that invests exclusively in biotech start-ups or invests exclusively in companies in Thailand offers any great safety or diversification.

I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion

Surprise! The returns reported by mutual funds aren't actually earned by mutual fund investors.

One of our anxieties is de-focusing the relatively small number of engineers we have. Within our own core development, I am reluctant to fund projects that are way afield of where we are.

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.

If you invested in a very low cost index fund - where you don't put the money in at one time, but average in over 10 years -you'll do better than 90% of people who start investing at the same time.

How we continue to fund Medicare and Medicaid into the future is a pressing issue of national concern.

Wilderness is two things-fact and feeling. It is a fund of knowledge and a spring of influence. It is the ultimate source of health-terrestrial and human.

I've not found ! one single mutual fund, one single real estate investment, any gold, silver or anything else that has given me higher returns than: me investing in myself.

If your fund doesn't last for the long term, how can you invest for the long term?

Most investors would be better off in an index fund.

The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding

Most active mutual funds are more interested in collecting fees than in boosting returns for investors.

Save 3-6 months of expenses in a Rainy Day fund. Know why? Cause it is going to rain, and you aren't the exception.

Corporate partners help UNICEF fund our programmes for children, advocate with us on their behalf, or facilitate our work through logistical, technical, research or supply support.

The Sister Fund supports spiritual women and their organizations, both grassroots activists for justice, and national and international social change agents.

If I had to sum up my practical skills, I would use one word: survival. And operating a hedge fund utilized my training in survival to the fullest.

National security - the military is the first thing we should spend money on. You have to fully fund that first. And then you should be paying for everything else.

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.

The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform.

Taxation is not a method by which the community corporately provides itself with essential services, but a fund to be divided between different interests with political claims upon the state.

We need laws written by people who have confronted life in the real world, not in the sheltered world of trust fund recipients of the insulated cocoon of academia.

When you look at the results on an after-fee, after-tax basis over reasonably long periods of time, there's almost no chance that you end up beating the index fund.

Fund investors are confident that they can easily select superior fund managers. They are wrong.

The principal role of the mutual fund is to serve its investors.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.

I started a business with two guys I played with, Ronnie Lott and Harris Barton: Champion Ventures, it's a fund of funds. We have $400 million or so under management.

Congress should fund research on the effects that violent video games have on young minds... We don't benefit from ignorance. We don't benefit from not knowing the science.

NASA's annual budget for space exploration could fund NOAA's budget for ocean exploration for 1600 years.

Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks.

One must not be mean with the affections; what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.

If you have the stomach for stocks, but neither the time nor the inclination to do the homework, invest in equity mutual funds.

They [Greenpeace] forgot their original purpose and turned into a big, rich bureaucracy, more interested in fund-raising than in saving lives, so I got fed up and quit... they're a bunch of wimps.

The body must be credited with an immense fund of know-how.

All the time and effort people devote to picking the right fund, the hot hand, the great manager have, in most cases, led to no advantage.

At first, the only thing that I learned was to save. Then I learned about mutual fund, then later on direct stock investments. I also went into small businesses and even real estate.

First, only invest in companies that have the potential to return the value of the entire fund.

Prosperity can't be just for CEOs and hedge fund managers. Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations. Prosperity and democracy are part of your basic bargain, too.

If the only way you can build an emergency fund is to pay the minimum due on your credit card, that is what you need to do.