Famous Quotes & Sayings

We also did consider what were the things in the project we could be scaling back on to make it fit within existing budget revenues.The reality was that in doing so we were going to strip away the elements that made it different from your typical sidewalks and light project.

The public health component of a governor's budget is discretionary. It is always the public health dollars that get squeezed.

The reason for the motion is council wants it documented in the budget for auditing reasons.

Bob Riley

The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.

There is some reason to be surprised that it's this much. The Congressional Budget Office had estimated the defense department would need $85bn and that was with no drawdown in troops.

There is no reason for exuberance because of the budget. It is only the foreign money which is pushing the market up.

Dan Glickman

There is not a budget cap on firefighting, ... When it comes to natural disasters, the government does respond, and Congress does respond, the president does respond.

We will operate under that budget. If we need to cut things, we'll cut things.

Unanimously, the budget groups in Washington have been calling for offsets. But only a few members of Congress seem willing to do it.

Unanimously, the budget groups in Washington have been calling for offsets, ... But only a few members of Congress seem willing to do it.

The SBA lending environment has been active, and we expect it to continue as such. In the short term, the budget decisions are going to mean very little, if anything, and I presume the same thing will hold over the long term.

I've said before, and I'll say it again: we can do better. We must do better. And we would do better, if we made better budget choices.

I've read about the budget and the need for matching funds. I would be willing to see the money better allocated in the city budget. The library is pretty important and it was pretty well neglected last year.

It was very significant that ... former President Clinton would have his office located here in central Harlem. His being here helps to budget the economic fiber of urban America.

Viktor Yushchenko

It was a case of my honor not to use Ukraine's budget ... privatization ... official power to solve private problems,

These companies, in their own way, all are in trouble and cutting back their capital spending and budgets, and that's why the IT services vendors are feeling the pinch as well, ... That cannot be said of the small and medium-sized enterprises, which is typically Sun's bread-and-butter marketplace.

Ron Hill

These companies are responding very nicely to improved budgets for exploration and production going forward,

These raises weren't part of the budget and we have to turn right around in July and set the budget for the next fiscal year.

These will be a great help in shaping the budget measures provide real insights into the hopes and concerns of Canadians from all provinces and territories.

These were all things that we are just putting out there that are going to be in his budget. We weren't planning a green week. We're just on track of getting the word out. There's so much in the budget and in the State of the State.

Peter Cohan

The stock is actually down fairly substantially from its high, which was about $80. It's now in the $45 to $47 range. But it's an excellent company. It grows revenues and profits very fast. It's different than other Web consulting firms in that it has a reputation for delivering. When it says it will finish a project on budget on time, it does. It's very rare that a company actually does that.

The State Department budget gets cut so much that there is not enough money to provide for protection as well as other operations.

The state budget hasn't included that item now for two years.

I understand when you have to look at cutting budgets. But when you look at one program and you take one thing out of it, you eliminate participation. It counters what has been a statewide move to provide more opportunities.

I understand we have a lot of streets to repave and not a lot of money in the budget.

I understand there is no good answer. But I don't want the budget cut to change optimal education time. 4:15 is very late to get out, but 7:45 or 7:30 is the other extreme.

They are about to move into their budgeting year and so we typically see a prediction of better hiring as soon as they open up their budget, especially with a new government. There's a lot of optimism in public administration in terms of hiring.

Sandra Tsing Loh

The very success of the modern American family - where kids get punctually to SAT-tutoring classes, the mortgage gets paid, the second-story remodel stays on budget - surely depends on spouses' not being in love.

We simply disagree with the audit's conclusion that the CPA provided less-than-adequate controls over Iraqi funds that were provided to Iraqi ministries through the national budget process for hundreds of projects, essential services, Iraqi salaries and security forces.

What the delinquencies tell us is that there are more people who are under financial stress. The rise in energy prices is sucking up much more of households' budgets than they ever did.

We try to budget at least as much as we've paid the prior year.

We help them do things that are just not in their budget.

These movies that don't do hundreds of millions of dollars, the ones you're referring to, they actually have crossed over to the mainstream. They're not, they're just not doing blockbuster movie business. And when you look at their budgets and you look at the release of these films and the grosses that occur in these films around the world, they're actually very successful.