Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is a maintenance budget that provides the current level of services that we offer now. This budget is not all doom and gloom because there are some things within it that we should be excited about, but we felt that if further cuts were made, they would have a direct effect on our classrooms and town services like police and fire.

This instrument is not perfect, no budget ever will be, ... I can guarantee there will be budget variances by year-end. I can also tell you that due diligence has been devoted to this project during the short period of time that I have been on staff.

They're two of my buddies from touring Asia.

They've been so unabashed about making them permanent. Now that it's a visible piece of their budget, it makes it more front-and-center.

Dick Durbin

Americans are struggling to pay home heating costs, yet the president's budget cuts funding to help the most vulnerable in our nation pay their bills.

They have been very conscious to keep the budget in check.

You should not be thinking about cuts that will set us back. I would not vote for a budget that would set us back.

You sit down and work out a budget -- and it's not a four-letter word despite what people think.

You need to make a budget - and saving needs to be part of it.

Anne Sinclair

This is a significant budget decision before we've had the first budget discussion.

This is a series of photo-ops entirely driven by polls that tell the president that he isn't doing enough on energy. The president is talking a good game, but his budget doesn't back it up.

Richard Gephardt

This is happening without a budget, without hearings, without input from anybody,

This is good news for Salem-Keizer. That's roughly equivalent to 1 percent of our yearly budget and will be considered in the budget process, which continues during the next couple of months.

This is going to be more of a newspaper headline budget rather than one for any macro economic changes,

Trot Nixon

This is a prime example of why Bud Selig needs to take a look at teams playing each other 19 ... times a year.

Gilles Duceppe

This is a transition budget that was not worth triggering an election over.

Dick Gephardt

They have been following a budget that is faulty, and instead of sitting down with the president and with us and coming up with a consensus budget, they've been following this faulty budget,

They have a limited budget and have to manage funds very carefully.

Tom Daschle

They don't want a $1.6 trillion dollar tax cut. Now they want a $3.2 trillion dollar tax cut. I don't know why they don't just give the entire federal budget away,

Flip Saunders

They had guys who looked like they were the Bud Light Daredevils going off the trampoline. One time it looked like a volleyball (match) where one guy fakes it and the next guy goes up and spikes it. They were all over the rim.

Richard Gephardt

They are rushing, ... I suppose because they are worried about the facts getting out, they are worried about this budget being examined.

There will be no budget impact from this project from this day on. Unlike other expenses, debt service is fixed.

There were only 500 people here, and it doesn't seem it (represents) all the residents of the three towns. I don't think the DFM was publicized enough. People with special interests in passing the budget were here. Our property taxes are going to go up again, so I didn't like the outcome. I'm disgusted by it.

There were no nice or nasty surprises in the budget so market reaction was quite muted.

There were three kids yelling at officers, swinging their arms, wanting to help their buddies out, which resulted in two arrests made for causing a disturbance.

Robert Reischauer

The Republicans would lose the cover they have from the President being on board. They'd have to fashion a budget resolution on their own.

It's just this budget issue. Parents are concerned it's what everybody's talking about.

It's just become a budget gimmick on steroids. It just gives them a chance to take those costs off budget.

David Lynch

It seems like a ton of money, but then when you work out how shoe string we are, for example, our food budget per student is $5.25 a day.

G. H. Hardy

It was better for the budget at the time to go public safety. It has saved some money, but through the years I guess it wore out its usefulness. We're having fewer fires so we're needing less manpower.

It was excellent. We had a great car all weekend. We made a good change there on the second stop. Went back out. The car was solid, and we were able to hang on to third. Didn't have quite enough to try and make a run on the leaders, but I could catch Buddy and sustain it, but wasn't able to be offensive. I'm really happy with the podium. It's our first podium of the season. Pretty positive for the team, and we'll build upon it for the next race in Chicago.

It was excellent, ... We had a great car all weekend. We made a good change there on the second stop. The car was solid and we were able to hang onto third. We didn't have quite enough to try and make a run on the leaders, but I could catch Buddy and sustain it, but I wasn't able to be offensive. I'm really happy with the podium (top three). It's our first podium of the season. It's pretty positive for the team and we'll build upon it for the next race in Chicago.

Herbie Hancock

I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.