Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mitch Daniels

We recognize the federal government plays a very important role in researching cures for disease, and, therefore, our budget increases the NIH budget for 2002 by $2.8 billion, the largest increase in that department's history,

Doug Macdonald

We're doing projects on time and on budget all over the state.

Allyson Schwartz

And as you point out, for American families who struggle every day to figure out how do they pay, we talk about gasoline prices. That throws budgets into a real problem when you have budgeted really tight.

Bob Beauprez

It was my privilege to serve with Paul Ryan in the House and on the Ways and Means Committee. Ryan's vast experience and bold, reform-minded ideas were always evident. His knowledge of the federal budget is widely recognized.

W. S. Gilbert

Volunteer fire departments operate on very limited budgets. We wanted to help these local heroes and decided to donate some of our equipment. We are also involved with local ministry programs, donating washers and dryers to help the homeless and unfortunate.

Robert Vaughn

This would keep 98.5 percent of the budget from being held up by 1.5 percent of the budget.

Joe Turner

We have the funding to double the (park) operating budget right off the bat.

Lawrence Summers

Today, the IRS operates in a low-trust, short-tether budgeting environment, ... This makes rational planning for capital projects such as information technology very difficult.

When I saw (Tan's movie) 15, I thought this guy is just up there, you know, ... I said, 'Look Roy, just do a feature. Don't worry, we'll get the money, and you keep the budget really lean.' That's how 15 (the feature-film version) came about.

Larry Beinfest

We got the players we wanted. We didn't take players because we thought we could sign them. We didn't bypass somebody. These were the players we wanted. We had worked the budget and worked with David and Jeffrey on the budget, and we're confident if this guy is here at that number, we're going to be able to sign him and get it done.

We get a lot of our funding from player's pockets. Our budget is about $10,000.

Greg Bird

We found a significant budget shortfall in Michigan that forced us to make difficult choices. These prisoners can be housed in alternative facilities at a savings to the taxpayer.

Victor Ponta

Reducing debt through budgetary consolidation is essential to restoring Europe's financial health.

The president has rejected calls to raise taxes. The (White House) Office of Management and Budget will be working with Congress to cut unnecessary spending in the federal budget to handle the concerns raised by Katrina.

Lawrence Summers

The president has made it very clear that he will not sign any budget measure that doesn't put Social Security and Medicare first, that doesn't take those steps forward (and) certainly any measures that would put at risk the progress we've made in paying down the debt,

Pete Domenici

The president has been promising us certain things, and the American people certain things, and this budget does the exact opposite, ... Fox News Sunday.

The president continues to take his message to the American people, outlining his budget and tax cut plans, and the mercantile exchange is a good venue to talk about economic growth.

Bill Richardson

The president and his friends on Capitol Hill have put together a budget that does not reflect the values of everyday Americans.

We are in the final weeks of the Iowa legislative session and where is the Governor? He's been in Florida, Washington D.C. and New York, just in the past four days. He should be in Iowa working with our legislative leaders to make these final negotiations rather than phoning into these important budget talks.

We are in a position right now of already having to rethink our budget estimate for 2006.

Chaka Fattah

Well, first of all, one word you will not hear this administration use when they talk about the budget is a simple word called balance.

Unfortunately, when budget cuts are looming, CSP could be a target.

We didn't budget enough in salaries and we had a shortfall in state and local revenues.

Greg Davis

We don't have the budget to do that.

George Murphy

We don't have money in our budget for technology. We had to find an economical way to meet our storage needs.

We are a can-do agency, used to getting it all done even if we have to make some tough decisions. But we are seeing hits in all budget areas, so it's not like there's a whole lot of extra money that we can take for travel planning. We're hoping to get some direction in how to prioritize, given our funding level.

Roy Blunt

In the case of the Democrats' 2009 budget request, the statement of need could not have been articulated any clearer: We need more spending, historic new tax hikes, and greater control over the way American families live their lives.

We can't just strive for budget savings; we need an investment push, focusing on 2006.

We have to work hard to help them. Their budgets were significantly impacted.

Courtney Gains

Honestly, I had a kid, so you watch the movies your kids want to watch. I'm also a producer, so when I watch movies, I look at them from the genre they are, the budget they had, and the time they had to produce it. That's how I evaluate their success.

Knowing where our budget sits, knowing where our enrollment sits, I wasn't really pleased with the number he threw out for his salary.

Kids need to learn financial lessons early when they have their parents as a safety net. If you're just learning about saving and budgeting when your first car payment is due, you could be in trouble.

Katrina is to the domestic budget what Sputnik was to the space program,