Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Doherty

This budget hearing is going to be more raucous than it has in the past. The Council is emboldened by a lot of what has transpired in the last year and they're going to demand to be more equal partners in the budget process,

This budget has deceived the common man. The tax system is regressive. Heavy concessions have been granted to the corporate sector and spending on education and healthcare has not been increased to the expected levels.

This budget has deceived the common man. The tax system is regressive.

This is about whether the House is going to pass a budget this year that limits state spending and shows sympathy for the hardworking taxpayers of our state.

This is about preventing a dangerous budget from passing, not getting (legislative) seats.

Richard Gephardt

This is a national emergency. This is a national crisis, and we cannot worry about what the budgetary costs are. We have to get this done,

This is a maintenance budget that provides the current level of services that we offer now. This budget is not all doom and gloom because there are some things within it that we should be excited about, but we felt that if further cuts were made, they would have a direct effect on our classrooms and town services like police and fire.

It is too early to determine what the impact of any specific budget item will be on Boeing's continuing commitment to meet the evolving needs of our defense customers.

It is true that we have such a rich budget because we want to try as much as possible to qualify Ghana 2008.

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.

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.

There may not be a solution, but we've got like $200,000 worth of overtime in this budget and it looks to me like there would be some way we could knock some of that out. If we could, it might eliminate having to do away with people, or at least some of them. Maybe there's not a way, but that just looks like a ton of overtime.

There may be a couple of surprises in the budget but for the most part I think they are going to play it reasonably safe and not fool with expectations too much. And if that's the case, then the market movement shouldn't be large.

This is way in excess of market expectations and suggests that the Chancellor's finances will end the year in reasonable form and will certainly be a good platform for his budget on March 22.

You should not be thinking about cuts that will set us back. I would not vote for a budget that would set us back.

You sit down and work out a budget -- and it's not a four-letter word despite what people think.

You need to make a budget - and saving needs to be part of it.

Anne Sinclair

This is a significant budget decision before we've had the first budget discussion.

This is a series of photo-ops entirely driven by polls that tell the president that he isn't doing enough on energy. The president is talking a good game, but his budget doesn't back it up.

Richard Gephardt

This is happening without a budget, without hearings, without input from anybody,

This is good news for Salem-Keizer. That's roughly equivalent to 1 percent of our yearly budget and will be considered in the budget process, which continues during the next couple of months.

This is going to be more of a newspaper headline budget rather than one for any macro economic changes,

Gilles Duceppe

This is a transition budget that was not worth triggering an election over.

This is the first meaningful Medicaid reform package that will have mitigating impact on county budgets statewide, ... but we still have a lot of history to deal with.

Michael Griffin

This is not about new money, ... This is about a budget which keeps NASA ... approximately where it is today.

And we should resolve to fix our country's budget policy so that at long last our nation's people and their security can come first.

Robert A. Heinlein

Another ingredient in a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first! Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A

J. Taylor

Each member is allocated a budget that he or she can spend at his or her discretion. The same (criticism) could be said of the quality of upholstery on the office furniture or any other disbursement. ... It's public, it's disclosed, and members can defend it to their detractors.