Famous Quotes & Sayings

If we continue at a spending level like in this budget, we are headed downhill, ... This is not a budget I feel good about approving.

If we moderate prices, it's not the research and development budgets that would be the first to go down. The profit margins, which are three to four times the profit margins of other Fortune 500 companies, they might go down somewhat -- not research and development,

Yevgeny Primakov

If the budget isn't approved, we will not stay on our posts,

He was very effective as chairman of the budget committee, ... When you lose a commissioner that's got 11 years of service, you lose that expertise.

He hopes that the students stay engaged throughout this process and that they participate on campus as college presidents make the same kinds of tough decisions that the governor did with this budget.

He loved his country and had a buddy that joined at the same time.

He makes his claim about me after I've written a column sharply critical of his May 2004 budget reply, so that tells us a lot about what he says and why he says it. Things won't change much between journalists and politicians; Latham was a freak, a one-off.

O. J. Simpson

He'll be talking about solving the budget deficit not only this year, but into the future.

We can do this with monies out of our public works budget.

Gilles Duceppe

There is a firm confirmation that it (the imbalance) exists. This is a budget of transition. The real budget will be next year. We'll see next year if they deliver.

There is no consensus at all about what the budget debate is supposed to accomplish.

There is no cheap way to be better prepared. It takes money -- more money than this budget offers.

G. H. Hardy

There is no budget shortfall per se. We were challenged in putting together the budget year because of the loss of federal funding.

Tom DeLay

There is no fat left to cut in the federal budget.

We're pretty well-prepared as far as our maintenance budget goes. We're not too worried about hitting bottom.

We're pretty confident it will be maintained or continued. Unlike other Bush tax provisions, it actually raises tax revenue under the budget rules because participants are paying taxes today.

We're on a very limited budget and it (daily operations) cost a lot.

When household budgets tighten up women continue to buy for themselves. It's happening now.

We had a very serious budget problem before Katrina hit.

When the Gulf War happened, spending fell immediately thereafter. You had collapse of communism, and the need for budget cuts, ... Now the budget is heavily in surplus, and the public is crying out for protection. I think you'll have sustained increase in defense spending.

We needed an official study. It is a necessity to budget to improve the alleys.

We won't find construction materials cheaper than they are now. These are huge budget numbers, but not when you consider 42,000 students, 5,000 employees and 48 schools. We might be a midsize district in Florida, but we crack the top 100 of school districts in America.

Bertrand Russell

Bolshevism is to be reckoned with Mohammedanism rather than with Christianity and Buddhism. Christianity and Buddhism are primarily personal religions, with mystical doctrines and a love of contemplation. Mohammedanism and Bolshevism are practical, social, unspiritual, concerned to win the empire of the world.

Cameron Diaz

You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

Burton Cummings

I certainly haven't lived the life of a Buddhist monk.

Mild temperatures and budding spring foliage make this a great time of year to shake the dust off of that old gear, and get back in the boat.

Medicare is growing at a rate of 8.5 percent per year, the federal budget at 5.2 percent and the gross domestic product at only 4.8 percent,

Net revenues for the year are up on earlier budget predictions by more than 2 million.

One hundred fifty percent of the budget cuts that the EPA is getting will come from money transferred to states. So overall the EPA's personal budget is going up while the states' will be going down. This is nationally, not just specific to Region 8.

One of my personal favorite moments in life was when a buddy of mine and I were working in the joust. We finished up one really hot day, went over to the Rosie Stag, a little on-site period tavern, clapped our swords on the table, ordered up a pitcher of ale, whipped out our period pipes and tobacco, and just sat there relaxing for the next hour waiting for the next joust. Moments like that, you feel like you've transcended into what (life) might have been at that time.

Obviously, we welcome the handouts given by the minister, particularly as far as income tax is concerned and also as far as the tax and retirement funds are concerned. I think what the budget did miss firstly in respect to creating incentives for the private sector to actually come and invest in this country. There was nothing and here I refer specifically to rates of corporate taxation. There was no direct incentive to the private sector to employ people.

Obviously, we're going to try to nip this in the bud as quickly as possible.

Jason Blum

Occasionally I'll be a producer for hire on a larger budget movie, but with Blumhouse Pictures, we mainly focus on micro-budget, under-$5-million-dollar movies. That's what we're in business to do, and that's what we're in business to make.