Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pete Domenici

No one should kid themselves. This is not a budget that is going to have a significant impact on the fiscal policy of this country.

No one from the district ever called to say where we are (on the issue of the budget and stipends),

Arnold Schwarzenegger

My education budget for this year provides funding for new initiatives designed to support students and recognize excellent teachers,

Jake Edwards

My dad swims with me in the morning. He swims with old buddies of his. I've always had connections with swimming through my dad. My dad always tells me to reach at the finish. He's always, always reminding me.

(Music) is one of the things that always gets cut when schools face (financial) difficulties. When I was in school, we had instruments and uniforms and we had great budgets and we took trips and now it's wham! Everything is gone.

More of our budget will have to shift to the welfare families. What Congress is doing is going to make it even harder for low-income working parents.

More than anything else, this one program threatens the long-term federal budget.

Roy Blunt

More than anything else, a budget request is a statement of national priorities; a clear enumeration of what our country needs to grow its economy and remain in the future the first-rate power it is today.

David Mackenzie

My hands were tied in terms of going to Ireland for half the shoot because of budget considerations by the producers.

Now there's a choice between an on-time budget or a court's directive to fix the New York City schools. That's an extremely politically difficult decision to make.

Now that elections are over, we expect to receive this convergence program. Hungary has the largest budget deficit in the EU.

Obviously, in an ideal world, we would give as much money as we could to as many students as we could. But this is just not possible to do with the budget we are given.

Elizabeth Bowen

Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from the world, but the world from the power of innocence.

Mike Weir

The only other time I can recall my dad getting upset at me was when I missed a hockey practice. My parents were away, so my buddy and I decided to skip it. I never told my dad about it, but he found out from the coach.

The primary reason you're seeing more self funding is that the easy deals with the local governments are pretty much done. We don't have local government budget surpluses any more. It takes more creative financing.

David Bowie

I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.

When you budget surplus, you have to regenerate the surplus to the same amount.

Since December 2005, our customers have informed us of significant shifts in their budget and programs.

Since the (final) budget has to be voted up or down without any amendment, there's no opportunity to have that kind of debate.

Sixty percent of our general budget goes to education. It would be ironic if electronic commerce erodes the science and math education that the visionary leaders of tomorrow need to keep this industry going.

Six months ago, the McGuinty government said the deficit was $6 billion, then in the budget they said it was $3 billion, and now four months later, they say it's only $1.6 billion,

Most people don't budget properly because they're not taught to. There are no courses I know of, especially in the high school level. A lot of families purposely don't talk about finances; I think that's extremely detrimental.

Mike Pence has done a fabulous job leading the Republican Study Committee. They have put out a realistic and credible and specific budget proposal to get spending under control when virtually no one else is talking about it.

Bill Arnold

We have a number of major budget productions that either have looked seriously at or are in the process of considering the state for 2006. So it's about 180 degrees from what we were at this time a year ago.

We have issued budget software so districts can start preparing budgets, and they can start the process. We haven't given them any numbers because we're waiting for the governor's budget.

Dan Johnson

There are ways out there to shuffle the budget in order to give these folks what they need in order to stay.

Margaret Spellings

There are things in the Department of Education's budget and the federal government's general (budget) that the president has called for either trimming or eliminating, (and) those things I'm sure will be on the table as we negotiate with

Barbara Olson

I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.

Alan Greenspan

Lower budget deficits are the surest and most direct way to increase national saving. Higher national saving would help to lower real interest rates, spurring spending on capital goods so as to put cutting-edge technology in the hands of more American workers,

Many companies are very conscious about budgets today. So the $35 to $100 price points are very popular with corporate accounts.

Securing farmers' and ranchers' viability is always a top priority for the USDA. We'd need to find budget offsets.

Sen. Menendez has a 6-point lead in his race for re-election mainly because New Jersey is a Democratic state more fed up with the Bush administration and the war in Iraq than it is with high taxes and the budget crisis at home.

Joseph Jarman

So, immediately after that, I got a commission to write a piece for chamber orchestra, and in working on the material I discovered it was possible to incorporate the Buddhist teachings into the music, so that's what I started to do.