Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think this is a responsible budget for the elementary and secondary costs. With the secondary portion there were a lot of pieces out of our control.

I'm skeptical that a lot of people will use them, and I'm even more skeptical that Congress is in a mood right now to pass anything that has a negative budget impact.

Ozzie Guillen

I'm happy for him. He's one of my buddies from the Marlins, and it's good to see him back.

B. R. Ambedkar

If you study carefully, you will see that Buddhism is based on reason. There is an element of flexibility inherent in it, which is not found in any other religion

Little or no increase in what the state pays to take care of its most troubled children has resulted in a $100 million budget hole.

Molly Harper

I wondered what would be the most humiliating way possible to be turned into a vampire - a story that a vampire would be embarrassed to share with their vampire buddies over a nice glass of Type O.

I wish we had a finance director. We're working on the budget, for goodness sake. It would help us in getting together a budget and a five-year plan.

I was hopeful that they were going to take a stand and vote to make it official that they intend to eliminate (longevity pay) during the next budget cycle. Voting in favor of eliminating it today would have sent a strong message to the voters and they chose not to do it. I was glad that Joe Jaynes did take a stand and make a motion, but I was disappointed that there was no second.

I was informed in early January that they had eliminated my job. Financially, times are very tight (at the station). We've made some big investments in the Broncos, Oprah Winfrey and the Web site. The way it was explained to me was that the station budget would no longer support a morning sports guy.

We have a limited budget and need to prioritize our money, and since we had not received a plan, we ceased discussing that possibility.

We wanted to hold a nonpartisan rally to show a good portion of the town supports a quality education and wants a chance to vote on the budget before it's cut further.

We've got some folks that have production budgets using numbers from 1999. That just wasn't information that was going to be helpful to us today.

We've known for years that there are some easy things on paper. But it's politically hard to limit the budgetary footprint of the federal government. Any item you try and cut, you're going to tick off an 800-pound gorilla that fights with a sledgehammer.

We have to look at all areas. I have to plan for a $218,000 deficit. The referendum could fail. If it does, I've got to have the budget balanced.

We're working under a tight budget this year, very tight.

We're under way to having the budget produced

Utility costs represent a sizeable increase of the proposed budget request by 75 percent. Our utility costs are up $740,000 over FY06. We are working on a strategic education plan for the schools that will have a vision statement.

David Gill

We have our budget set for the summer and that won't change.

We joined up under the buddy system, but we were only together for a few weeks,

Barack Obama

We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.

We were looking for someone who could be very accountable for the budgeting process. I think she will be an excellent fit for our community, and she's very excited to come.

When it comes to budget decisions that would help us fight the long war, they either change nothing or walk in the wrong direction.

Eric Hyman

When it's all said and done, I'm held responsible for our budget. If I had the latitude, there's nothing I would rather do than grant everybody's wishes. Unfortunately, I'm not in that position.

Jay Inslee

We can see the dollar figure cut out of the education budget that was put in by the Senate,

We hope the Legislature takes to heart our previous warnings about the budget shortfall and the need for fiscal responsibility.

We hope the leadership will find it in their hearts and minds and budgets to bump us up a bit.

We hope that the budget is such that next year, finally, these important investments can be made in our state?s future.

Bart Stupak

While costs for full interoperability are estimated at $18 billion, for the second year in a row the president's budget completely zeros out specific funding for interoperability,

We're budgeted for this year. We did the budgeting for this year in the spring, so our year is set. However, if the price remains high or goes higher, then we may have to drop a home-and-home series with someone.

We don't see this as a budget exercise. It's about management excellence.

David Brown

We don't have a budget problem at this point. We've spent about half of our budget. We budgeted $3-million, and we spent about $1.7-million so far.

It doesn't matter whether funding comes from a dedicated budget or from R&D. The trend is to remove funding from commercial ties to better comply with new industry trends. Some companies still rely on marketing or commercial ops for funding, but transition takes awhile, especially with larger companies.

I teach English, but I also coordinate the honors program. I told them that and they were devastated. They decided they would like the honors program to take that on with whatever extent we could with no budget.