Famous Quotes & Sayings

In general, the passage of the budget is expected to go smoothly, given it contains little that is new or controversial.

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.

In a situation where the state is facing budget problems, it's hard to convince voters that you can do a lot. If it was so easy to provide property-tax relief, surely they would have already done so. It's easier to attack.

In an era when the nation's collective imagination is no longer captured by space, real science sometimes has a smaller budget than science fiction.

Nancy Allen

I'm not sure I get a budget (from Jones) that is prioritized,

Stephen Harper

I'm confident the budget will be well-received by Canadians.

Ken Buck

I'm coming to Washington, D.C., to do the people's work. And the people's work has to do with reducing spending and cutting budgets and, and trying to get a grip on the size of government.

If the provinces' budgets get a little better and the federal budget a little worse, it can only be good for provincial bonds.

John Kasich

If the president forces us to choose between his raising taxes or raiding Social Security to fund his expansion of government, his budget is dead on arrival, ... A lame duck president should not be able to derail us on the way toward retiring the national debt, tax relief and saving Social Security.

If the pathetic level of funding in the proposed budget continues, restoration of the dead zone in the Sound will continue for a quarter century and raw sewage will flow into the Connecticut River and Sound for at least another hundred years. This is totally unacceptable to Save the Sound, and I venture to say, every member of the Coalition.

I'm frustrated about watching the City Commission meetings and seeing fire department budget cuts still not taking place,

I'm probably already in the red on the budgeting allotment for utilities.

I'm one of the few county managers in this state who would not go to meetings and fuss about my sheriff. We always got along. Sometimes we had some pretty tough conversations about what he wanted in a budget, what he thought he should be doing and what I felt like as county manager I could put in the budget and make a recommendation on.

Alan Moore

If I write a crappy comic book, it doesn't cost the budget of an emergent Third World nation. When you've got these kinds of sums involved in creating another two hours of entertainment for Western teenagers, I feel it crosses the line from being merely distasteful to being wrong.

If Microsoft gets the product out in January, that would still be in time for the new budget spending that drives many mid-to-small businesses, the core of the office supply segment.

Steven Wright

I haven't done a film in about five years and I want to do more. It's not a matter of expense, because budgets are low, it's the problem of not having a really good idea.

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 know costs go up. But I can't support a budget that went up 7 percent in these times. We could have found savings.

It's not a steep cut. But this budget continues the erosion that's been going on for six years.

Any adjustments would have to be made through the budget process.

Any time you have items budgeted on funds that are there for only one year, but you know next year you are going to have to pay for them, you have got to figure out where the money is going to come from, ... We were very, very grateful for the money we received, but the way it came has created some internal budget challenges.

Services won't be seriously impacted. We've been moving in this direction for the last two budget years. This Council made it very clear when they hired me that they wanted to get the budget process back in order.

Social Security should not be a resource for negotiators over the federal budget deficit,

Andrew Jackson

Soaring gasoline and natural gas prices will have a major negative impact on family budgets and household spending, likely resulting in job losses in sectors like tourism and retail trade.

Paul Kagame

At this stage, we want them to get more involved in ... budget support, debt-relief support and many other things that can help ... our country on economic development problems,

Rodrigo Rato

This year is going to be challenging for the budget in the U.S. and probably we are going to see a resurgence of a deficit, which is not good news.

When you open a building, you incur all those budgetary concerns, and if we close the building, we don't have to pay for all of those things so we can save that money.

Barbara Boxer

What George Bush did is he picked his tax cut and then sort of built a budget around it, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.