Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chaka Fattah

Well, first of all, one word you will not hear this administration use when they talk about the budget is a simple word called balance.

Unfortunately, when budget cuts are looming, CSP could be a target.

Unfortunately, the ear buds are even more likely to cause hearing loss than the muff-type earphones that were used on Walkman and portable CD players.

E. F. Schumacher

From a Buddhist point of view, this is standing the truth on its head by considering goods as more important than people and consumption as more important than creative activity. It means shifting the emphasis from the worker to the product of work, that is, from the human to the sub-human, surrender to the forces of evil.

Dogen

Just study Buddhism. Don't follow the sentiments of the world.

Dogen

Students of the Way must not study Buddhism for the sake of themselves. They must study Buddhism only for the sake of Buddhism. The key to this is to renounce both body and mind without holding anything back and to offer them to the great sea of Buddhism.

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.

Our budget is reallocating earmarks to reflect our higher-priority needs.

Our budget is down, and that's a good thing. The head count at Sudbury School is about 50 percent of what it was a decade ago and that decline is expected to continue to drop by 5 percent a year.

Our budget for streets has been $25,000. All that does is fix a few potholes.

Ralph Klein

Other than on budget day each year, I don't recall ever in my years as being premier, or in my years in provincial politics, ever making such a significant one-day investment announcement,

Our 2006 capital expenditure budget will be approximately $1.1 billion, which will be scalable depending on market conditions. In addition, we will pursue alternative opportunities to expand our capacity through the use of strategic alliances.

(Residents) have to recognize the selectmen drive the manager in this town. Budgets are not made up at the last minute . . . If you're going to make changes you have to make it at the selectmen level.

(Residents) have to recognize the selectmen drive the manager in this town, ... Budgets are not made up at the last minute . . . If you're going to make changes you have to make it at the selectmen level.

Responsible budgeting requires that we fund not only for today, but also plan and prepare for tomorrow.

Relying on outsourcing gives companies more flexibility in regard to budgeting and allows them to respond more quickly to fluctuations in the economy,

Sathya Baba

Remember, only the buds that are ready will bloom. The rest have to wait patiently.

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.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

It drove them nuts, ... But the interesting thing about it is, the following week they signed the budget exactly the way it was a week before.

It does seem that there needs to be some sort of a fiduciary watchdog over (the commission's) budget. These are public funds and need to be handled prudently.

It has become clear that Gordon Brown's budget forecasts are no longer in the realms of possibility.

Dean Falk

Total budget that includes programming, staff and facilities is something over half a million dollars a year. And, that doesn't include a budget for large infrastructure investment.

This new budget clearly shows Bush's lack of commitment to the businesses where most Americans work. I expect it to have a significant negative impact on legitimately small, women-owned and minority-owned businesses.

We should commit resources, as we did to conquer polio in the fifties. We could quadruple the Alzheimer's budget and not saturate all clinical trials and possible targets. If we don't there will be hell to pay in twenty years.

We're disappointed, frustrated and angry. Small business is not a part of the Ontario plan for this budget and there is nothing.