Daniel Borochoff People Quotations

It's hard to get donors to think about other important causes. It's a shame for the people in Niger and Mali and people in everyone's hometown that are in need. ... They'll have to suffer also because of Katrina.

In the past three years there's been a decline in giving to human service-type organizations. People need to step up to the plate and give extra.

It's strange that the former first lady would want to do this. If her son's having a rough time of it, couldn't she write him a check? Maybe she isn't aware that people could frown upon this.

When there are people suffering and people in need right now, it's a harder argument to give money to a memorial, to a capital campaign, or an endowment.

There is a lot more needed to get these people back up on their feet. We had concern with charities overdoing it in 9/11.

The Red Cross is a brand name, and people automatically pick it for donations. But there are a lot of local groups who could use assistance and reimbursement, and the Red Cross isn't willing to do that.

Americans have a fixed budget for giving, and if they give to this, it's not available to give to some other charity. If this group wants to tell people that they're not going to get 90 percent of what the fundraiser takes in, if they want to be up front with people, then I have no problem with it.

Americans are stuck at giving 2 percent of their income to charity. What that means is that it's a fixed pie. ... Unless people change their behavior, a lot of giving will be taken away from other groups.

People make the assumption that wristbands are associated with a charity, but that isn't always the case.