Famous Quotes & Sayings

This was not a high-budget enterprise that I could see. Other people come to Hope to shoot commercials and such, and they throw money around right and left.

We actually look to the scientific community to kind of come back to NASA and tell us what the priorities should be. And then at NASA, we try to look within our budget and say, 'What can we accommodate, and what are the most important things for the nation?'

Callie Khouri

There are so many screenwriters with incredible stories to tell, so I hope there will be some kind of shift in the business where very few types of movies are now made by the studios. There needs to be different budgets for different audiences; not everything having to be a huge opening weekend.

Louise Slaughter

In these difficult financial times for so many of our districts, as our local leaders strive to balance their budgets by cutting services, we would be irresponsible not to invest in the arts.

We did increase the budget by about 35 percent, hopefully we will be OK, ... It's hard with the prices going up and down, we did put more money in. It's hard to save money on fuel because most of our money is spent on bus routes. So you either have to shorten your routes or have less stops. That means that kids have to go farther to get to the bus.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

There are faces to each and every one of these dollars that is getting taken away from us. There is a lifetime that may get ruined. Today, we're here to say no to the budget cuts and to say please give us our money back.

We're a debt-free township and we strive in our budget to keep it that way.

Jack Mitchell

We're at 83 percent of our budget. I'm sure we'll run over.

The real issue is executing those plans over a dynamic period of time. Most of these systems, you don't implement in a week, you don't implement in a year. They're multiyear implementations in a political environment where laws are being changed, in a budgetary environment where budgets are being changed.

Jonathan Katz

The real challenge is going to be increasing social spending while at the same time not expanding the budget deficit.

Michael Shermer

In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, incompetence or not fulfilling the terms of a contract.

Norman Wisdom

Most of my comedies were low on budgets - certainly by American standards.

We're going to put some controls in during the budget process.

We were in a series of budget reductions. It was not something we wanted to do. We will stay with the present arrangement. The budget climate really hasn't changed for us.

What makes it a problem, regardless of why, is that smaller companies are the ones who have fewer defenses in place. There are no large dedicated IT staffs in place, or large budgets for technology, so it's a double whammy.

We?re going to have to budget $10,000 for gas.

Alan Greenspan

Unless the situation is reversed, at some point these budget trends will cause serious economic disruptions,

Unless significant changes are made in the budget there is no way it will pass,

Unfortunately most budget cuts are directed at low-income people. We're overburdened, and I don't know what's going to happen. It's sad that the richest country in the world will not prioritize health care in America.

We know how our school districts struggle with finances. Obviously if there is greater (financial) support (from the state), they're going to have a better performance as long as they try to work within a budget and framework.

Eric Hyman

We have to have a grasp of where we are from a budgetary standpoint. We have to have better accountability and we have to run it like a business.

We've actually started the budget hearings tonight, thanks to you folks,

Bob Woodruff

We started out with a package, ... Now we're down to 25 percent of our employees participating in that package. I just cannot get comfortable with 25 percent of the employees helping us with our budget problems. I like a package where everyone can contribute.

(We're) in such a tight budget - like we have had every year, ... (If) you can increase reserves at all, it's a feather in your cap.

Bill Jones

We're still a number of days away from going through the budget process.

We're seeing a firming of IT budgets throughout the United States, ... We are seeing budgets get set.

Robert Morgan

When we examined budget issues last year, we realized if we kept going the way we were going, we would have to increase taxes 28 percent over four years and we had to look at ways to compromise.

Austan Goolsbee

Giving Northern Europe a veto over Southern Europe's budgets will not hold a monetary union together. The euro zone will continue to need the weaker countries to stomach decades of high unemployment to grind down wages.

We've been planning for this for several years, and the original budget for the renovations was $500,000 (for each station), but that ended up being about $250,000 short.

The government's plan to cut the deficit will pay off if the economy continues to accelerate. The budget deficit next year, which would be the lowest since 1980, means there won't be pressure on rates to rise.

The government delayed its budget spending till the second half of the year.

Bernie Sanders

For too long, unfunded federal mandates have drained the budgets of states and communities. The strength and vitality of our communities must be restored.