Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's not a real exciting budget. It's fairly routine business this year. As much as possible, we tried to limit department requests to current budget levels. There was some give and take on that because of salary changes.

It's not finished, ... We will fine-tune the budget between the next workshop and the final reading.

It's not a perfect budget in the least, but it's one we can support. We're encouraging people to go out and vote yes.

David Cox

Eighty-five percent of our current operating budget is dedicated to personnel expenditures.

Eight years ago, our future was at risk, ... Economic growth was low, unemployment was high, interest rates were high, the federal debt had quadrupled in the previous 12 years. When Vice President Gore and I took office, the budget deficit was $290 billion, and it was projected this year the budget deficit would be $455 billion.

Steve Smith

Education has always been a sacred cow in state budgets. There's a constitutional responsibility to provide all students a decent one.

Michael Moss

Every one of our 10,000 taste buds is wired for sugar. But we aren't born liking salt - we develop a taste for it at about 6 months.

Everyone doesn't necessarily spend 100 percent of their budget amounts in a given year.

Everybody is in the same position, waiting to see what will be in the budget in regard to the Energy Policy Act.

Steve was my division commander. He helped me get through so much. He taught me how to prepare a budget and take inventory. He helped me wade through all the paper work. He helped all of us - that's just the kind of guy he is.

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.

Nancy Pelosi

The Republican budget was about increasing the deficit, cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans at the expense of the middle class and hurting those who need our help most -- hurricane survivors, seniors, students, and rural Americans. Democrats were united and made those issues too hot to handle for Republicans.

Kent Conrad

There needs to be recognition by the administration that his budget is not going to get through the Senate because his priorities are not the priorities of the country.

Scott Brown

I started looking into the cost of the equipment because it is a really good fitness program, especially when I only have a PE budget of a couple hundred bucks.

It takes a significant length of time for the Budget Office to work through the process with everything else they have to do.

The walls are up, ... It's still on budget and we are hoping we don't have any surprises.

Joshua Bolten

The U.S. budget deficit is falling, and it's falling fast,

Rick Astley

I've done drives through Budapest and Oslo and used to drive to Sardinia, too, which is quite a journey. Drives are an adventure because I don't plan them too carefully. I take detours depending on how I feel and usually stop and stay at places I like the look of.

Phil Simms

Not changing ruined Buddy Ryan . He wouldn't change from the 46 defense, even when people figured it out. Not Bill. He changes every year.

Mel Gibson

It was a cheap, nasty movie that was cranked out in three weeks on a tiny budget.

It's way too early to actually tell its impact. Such a small fraction of consumers have gotten them. People will use them to supplement back-to-school shopping budgets and home improvement projects people have been putting off.

It's very hard to see why he'd want to spend another four years working under the same set of restrictions. Legislators in safe districts and a budget process that doesn't work -- that doesn't seem like a fun way to spend four more years of his life.

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.