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There's even an outside chance of a budget surplus.

Instead of having a choice between six or seven home where they are competing. They now have a choice between 30 to 40 homes in their budget range. Now they can look and examine and it will take them longer.

Instead, the president's subsequent budgets have increased funding for all of these programs. The country can meet the goal of cutting the deficit in half and still invest in key programs for vulnerable Americans, and claims to the contrary aren't supported by the facts of recent budget history.

In order to make it feasible, you have to put some kind of income element. We just did the budget and in this day and age, you have to try and find a way of sustaining something without always it being taxes.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your nation tomorrow, then you'd better rethink how you allocate taxes to fund science. The federal budget needs to recognize this.

I noticed some people having a hard time getting out of their driveways because of the long chain of traffic that is there - buses, people trying to get to work. I've actually had to budget my time to the point where instead of leaving at quarter to eight like I used to do, now I have to leave at 7:15.

I put in work for my neighborhood. Hundreds of bills, measures, budget items, and hearings. I always tried to make it a point to stay late, to always run the longest hearings, to carry nearly the most bills. The tragedy was that of the 18 years I was in Sacramento, 16 years were under Republican governors.

Richard Gephardt

I plead with members, turn down this budget, and let's do a budget that doesn't send this country back into deficits,

In the past, when we had the more difficult budget years, it was considered successful if we were able to retain $65 million in general fund money for the Centennial Highway Fund.

In the midst of budget reviews for 1998, this is clearly an appropriate time for such a review.

In the budget climate of California, the governor feels he shouldn't unduly burden the taxpayers.

In terms of fiscal policy very little is expected from the budget.

Felix Sabates

I gave Robby an unlimited budget for Indy and he managed to exceed that.

in a budget crisis of its own making.

Bob Elliott

I guess we still look forward to any other input, but it looks like the budget will be workable at 3.5 mills, ... I don't think we need any more than that right now. We can't go any lower than that unless we generate money somewhere else, and I don't know where that somewhere else would be. The millage is where we need it to be to do what we need to.

If consumer confidence holds steady, and consumers spend the money from tax cuts, and once business see a clear sign of a rebound in sales, then around September or October, they're going to budget and change their targets for capital spending. Then, it takes a couple of months to hire people and get set up.

Gov. Rell feels Len Boyle is doing a superb job as commissioner. The governor understands and shares many of the budget frustrations - but at her initiative, the state police will finally have a full complement of 1,248 troopers in 2006.

If everything else grows super-fast, and such a small portion of the budget grows at 1 percent, big deal.

If foreigners took this as a leading indicator that we were going to become irresponsible in the budget in a great variety of ways ... you could have a negative psychological effect.

Vicente Fox

I don't see risk for next year. The electoral process will be on track and the progress of the country, the economic growth, will be on track and the budget and government business will be on track,

Jim Doyle

I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government.

I don't think we ever envisioned transportation being solely a budgetary item.

However strong our revenue picture, we cannot for one minute drop our guard as it relates to combing the state budget for further spending cuts and program efficiencies.

Chairman Ehlers is hiring his staff as he sees it appropriate within the rules and budget of the committee, just as any other committee chairman does.

His budget is tough medicine, no question about it. But it is also responsible and honest, and ultimately that's what the people of New Jersey expect.

High gas prices had a devastating impact on consumers' budgets and caused consumers to expect a worsening financial situation during the year ahead.

Ben Bernanke

High energy prices are burdening household budgets and raising production costs, and continued increases would at some point restrain economic growth.

Guus Hiddink

By the look of things the budget for players has changed too.

Before, there was a general lack of respect for the numbers the School Committee came up with and for the way their budget was generated, ... understand what our budget is for.

I'm worried, Larry. I think it's imperative that we start to budget and plan.

In economic terms at least, Wednesday's budget seems set to be a very low key affair.

I never felt very cavalier about over-spending what's in the budget.

In a time when education budgets are increasingly tighter than ever, every dollar counts when it comes to school funding. This is especially true for unrestricted funds in which schools can decide for themselves how to use the money -- whether it's for teacher training, special field trips, school supplies, playground equipment, musical instruments and more. We've found that every school has a wish list, and we want to help them fill it.