Donors Quotes

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.

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

I am fundraising gold. Democrat donors hate me so much, they hear my name and they run to their checkbooks.

If you take a guy like a Barack Obama, who’s raised millions of dollars from the most donors in the history of this nation, it suggests that there’s a deep and profound hunger for a new politics to come forth. And a guy like him has been able to mobilize that and to reach certain parts of the hip-hop generation.

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

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

Further, Japan is the second largest donor in Iraq after the United States, with over $5 billion dollars for humanitarian, infrastructure and reconstruction projects.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

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.

We have emails from donors. We got thousands and thousands of emails here that have been leaked and dumped, and I can’t find any reference to climate change.

I want a baby from an Italian – possibly Sicilian – donor.

People who are living donors who give kidneys. You can’t give a heart and you can’t give a liver, but you can sure give a lung – well, kidneys, anyhow. And that’s where the main part of this whole thing is – one out of every eight people, I believe, is going to have some kind of kidney problem during their lifetime.

My administration will not answer to donors or lobbyists or special interests, but we will serve the citizens of the United States of America, believe me.

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.

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.

While campaigns typically purchase mailing lists, it was strange to use donor money to buy a mailing list from the campaign`s own candidate, especially when [Newt] Gingrich could have gifted the mailing list for free as an in-kind donation.

This year [2016] we’re seeing a really strange upending [of the party]. The money was coming from these super-wealthy donors who were really on the far, hard right, people like the Kochs. So the party and the candidates moved so far to the right that a lot of people who don’t share their point of view were unhappy.

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 foundations and individual donors whose priorities don’t align with my organization’s.

In America, one of our two major parties is dominated by extremists dedicated to destroying the social contract, and the other party has been so enfeebled by two decades of collaboration with the donor class it can offer only feeble resistance to the forces that are devastating everyday people.

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

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.

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.

The Republican Party has steadfastly sided with its donors and its lobbyists, and this is why we’re where we are.

Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it’s aid-neutral.

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.

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

John Kerry is busy trying to raise money right now for his campaign. It was reported today that Kerry’s hoping to raise $80 million before the Democratic convention. That’s a lot of money. Yeah, Kerry has two ways to raise the $80 million: soliciting Democratic donors and going through his wife’s purse.

Do you know they’ve already seen a drop of 37% in donations [for Clinton Global Initiative]? Now, if it’s a charity, why a 37% drop? There’s a 37% drop because the donors figured out the Clintons can’t do anything for ’em anymore. That’s not pretty.

What I saw during the Hillary Clinton campaign [2016] with data dummies who were more concerned with polls than people, they were more concerned with donors than voters. And it wasn’t a lot of heart felt on that campaign and I think it left us vulnerable.

Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.

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.

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

When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure, these are important these days – museums have to bring in money – but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance.

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.

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.

I think it’s great that they can come in and suck us dry. Remind me to leave my window unlatched tonight. Day. Night. Whatever. Cone steal my soul, you worthless bastards. I’m open like a twenty-four-hour blood diner donor.” (Dev)

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?

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

I feel that the recent ruling of the United States Army and Navy regarding the refusal of colored blood donors is an indefensible one from any point of view. As you know, there is no scientific basis for the separation of the bloods of different races except on the basis of the individual blood types or groups.

Everything I give, pretty much, is public. Not every donor wants to – or is willing to get the kind of abuse and attacks that we do, or death threats, so they’re not willing to have their names out. I think the other side is pushing for that because they want to intimidate people so they won’t oppose it.

If your aims as a donor are modest, you can accomplish an awful lot. When your aims become elevated beyond a reasonable level, you not only don’t accomplish much, but you can cause a great deal of damage.

That’s not a father. That’s a sperm donor. Forget him. He’s a mess. Concentrate on me. I’m terrific. (Linc Blaise)

Globalization has delivered many benefits for international donors, but it’s the job of politicians to represent the people – and to put American workers first.

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.

Big business, elite media and major donors are throwing money at Hillary Clinton because they have total control over every single thing she does. She is their puppet and they pull the strings.

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.

Charities must treat donors as if they were shareholders.

I took one glance at her in that hospital bed under the dull light and recognised the look on her face, which I’d seen on donors often enough before. It was like she was willing her eyes to see right inside herself, so she could patrol and marshal all the better the separate areas of pain in her body.

The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter.

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.

Every year, nearly two-thirds of the approximately 200,000 patients in need of a bone marrow transplant will not find a marrow donor that matches within their families.

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.

I tried to get Adam Sandler hired on a movie called “Brain Donors” and the producers wouldn’t hire him. And a few years later, he was doing “Happy Gilmore” and he remembered I had fought for him, so he hired me.

You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Write a living will. And become an organ donor!

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

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.

The fundamental problem with the immigration system in America is that it serves the needs of wealthy donors, political activists and powerful, powerful politicians.

In America … the seven ages of man have become preschooler, Pepsi generation, baby boomer, mid-lifer, empty-nester, senior citizen, and organ donor.

I would definitely like to have a family, and whether that’s with a man or a woman doesn’t really matter to me. I’ve already got my friend who’s going to be the donor, so that’s taken care of. Just give me a few years and we’ll go from there.

Non-profits must become deeply engaged in the ways that their donor communities are using social technology.

Do not give alms promiscuously. Select the unworthy poor and make them happy. To give to the deserving is a duty, but to help the improvident, drinking class is clear generosity, so that the donor has a right to be warmed by a selfish pride and count on a most flattering obituary.

I encourage everyone I know to sign an organ donor card, but if someone doesn’t want to sign, that’s his or her choice. If someone isn’t willing to give an organ, however, why should that person be allowed to receive an organ?

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

The Clinton machine is at the center of this power structure. We’ve seen this first hand in the WikiLeaks documents, in which Hillary Clinton meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of U.S. sovereignty in order to enrich these global financial powers, her special interest friends and her donors.

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.

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.

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.