Famous Quotes & Sayings

What is likely to happen as a result of strength in the economy, I think government revenue will continue to exceed expectations, which means the budget deficit will come down faster. That is a marginal plus.

What I would love to see is getting rid of silos and pooling budgets so we can do what the individual client needs.

Candace Smith

We finished the fiscal year at the end of June $7.5 million over budget for fuel costs. If we continue to pay $2.07 a gallon until the end of next June, we would finish it $8.6 million over budget.

We give school chefs enough produce for three or four days. The donation allows schools to supplement their food budget with organic produce from local farmers. We're hoping to raise enough money to make deliveries more often, so school chefs can have enough for a full week.

We have a budget that we set; we're on target with that plan. Campaigns make strategic decisions. You can decide to put somebody in a room on the phone for six hours a day (raising money) or you can try to get them out in the public, and that's what we did this cycle.

Brad Moore

We have 250 employees, ... The maximum impact on the budget would be $43,750.

Helen Zille

We cannot use the full budget to build just one stadium.

We want to nip this in the bud so that Chuck's directive can be changed. We are meeting with the Pueblo Lodging Association next week and we want to make sure we do everything we can to maintain our relationship with CHSAA.

I understand that Buddy and Danica are two of our most popular drivers. I'm sure people want to see them, but they need to have respect for the race team due to the circumstances that happened Sunday morning.

I understand when you have to look at cutting budgets. But when you look at one program and you take one thing out of it, you eliminate participation. It counters what has been a statewide move to provide more opportunities.

I understand we have a lot of streets to repave and not a lot of money in the budget.

I understand there is no good answer. But I don't want the budget cut to change optimal education time. 4:15 is very late to get out, but 7:45 or 7:30 is the other extreme.

They are about to move into their budgeting year and so we typically see a prediction of better hiring as soon as they open up their budget, especially with a new government. There's a lot of optimism in public administration in terms of hiring.

Sandra Tsing Loh

The very success of the modern American family - where kids get punctually to SAT-tutoring classes, the mortgage gets paid, the second-story remodel stays on budget - surely depends on spouses' not being in love.

The SBA lending environment has been active, and we expect it to continue as such. In the short term, the budget decisions are going to mean very little, if anything, and I presume the same thing will hold over the long term.

I've seen Buddy and the way he handles the (father-son) situation, and I think he does an excellent job.

I've said before, and I'll say it again: we can do better. We must do better. And we would do better, if we made better budget choices.

I've read about the budget and the need for matching funds. I would be willing to see the money better allocated in the city budget. The library is pretty important and it was pretty well neglected last year.

I've probably got 20 phone messages from my buddies back home. They were probably getting drunk at 7 a.m.

Together with the Weinstein Company we have been able to show these designers' passion for creativity and incredible talent to an ever-growing audience. We can't wait to get back out there and give another crop of budding designers the opportunity of a lifetime.

You may have very strategic knowledge of what's going on. You may have good knowledge of budget or budgeting process. It doesn't mean when someone structures the transactions, you get there and roll the sleeves and sharpen the pencil, do the pricing and negotiate the derivatives and sales. That is what the issues seem to be, and nobody expects the CEO to do that.

Rodrigo Rato

This year is going to be challenging for the budget in the U.S. and probably we are going to see a resurgence of a deficit, which is not good news.

When you open a building, you incur all those budgetary concerns, and if we close the building, we don't have to pay for all of those things so we can save that money.

When you need help these days, you don't need a bugle to call the cavalry, you need a big buddy list.

Barbara Boxer

What George Bush did is he picked his tax cut and then sort of built a budget around it, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.

Gene Sperling

What does it say about their priorities and their values that they tax the poorest families ... as their preferred solution to escape the budgetary mess they created for themselves.

Mary McFadden

We teach them to budget if they need it, and encourage them to keep their children in school and anything else we feel they might need.

We simply disagree with the audit's conclusion that the CPA provided less-than-adequate controls over Iraqi funds that were provided to Iraqi ministries through the national budget process for hundreds of projects, essential services, Iraqi salaries and security forces.

Alan Greenspan

There should be little disagreement about the need to re-establish budget discipline,

There's frightening information in there. Our school budget has gone up 140 percent over the 13 years.

Bill Simon

There's no question we've got a very serious budget crisis facing California. We've got the nation's worst credit rating.

Tony Snow

There's no consensus on cutting the budget, solving the illegal immigration problem, tackling the looming meltdown of Medicare and Social Security or making a concerted effort to win the hearts of minority voters.

The top priority of course will be to put a budget together this year that ensures quality but lives within the limited tuition guidelines that we've got.