If Poindexter made a comment to me like that, it would have been in the context of once the authorized program is approved there would be no point in having any of these private benefactors any longer.
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People forget that unauthorized does not mean untrue and authorized does not mean authentic.
'Amy' is somewhere in the middle of authorized and unauthorized.
The very good thing about MFA programs is their democratizing. They bring a lot of different people to the table.
People striving for approval from others become phony.
I don't want retired schoolteachers or any other good Americans to be duped by fraudulent organizations into giving money, thinking it is going to go to disabled vets, when in fact it's not at all. It's going in to pad the pockets of some scam artists. I want to stop this stuff.
Naming rights are a seductive philanthropic inducement, yet more anonymous operational support may better advance the charitable purpose.
The difference between authorized and unauthorized biographies is the difference between riding in carriage or squatting in steerage.
No, I was pleased that it is possible for somebody who makes full disclosure as I've done, not only of the contributors, but also how the money is spent.
At that point, which would be around February 2002, they came and they confiscated my computer, because, they said, they were suspecting that I was communicating with certain Senate members and taking this issue outside the Bureau.
I was authorized to do everything that I did.