Famous Quotes & Sayings

We would budget for it. Those are conversations we're already having.

This will be a budget that will hurt. The cuts will be deep.

There has to be a reasonable budget policy that limits the countries in their spending.

There is a big chasm between rhetoric and the budget process.

When budget times are tight, like they were in 2001 after 9/11 and after the economic downturn, states will raise taxes.

We're trying to cope with the realities. The Navy had a lot of budget difficulties.

We said, 'We have this budget, so let's use it,'

We think this will circumvent the budget process and put funding for one special interest group on autopilot - and that's inappropriate.

Our goal was to democratize search. We saw a large underserved market with the same search needs as big companies, but without the same IT budget and staff.

Overcrowded, multilingual, schools will not become manageable because the kids are suddenly the children of guest workers, instead of illegal aliens. Millions of unskilled laborers will not magically become high-earning taxpayers because they have work visas. State budget crises will not be alleviated, housing will not become more affordable, traffic will not become less congested, and middle class jobs will not become more plentiful if we give everyone who is here, or who wants to come here, a piece of paper that says they're legal.

Tom Daschle

Our tax cut has to fit in within a responsible budget,

Our focus regarding Idaho's property tax system has been to help legislators and others get a good understanding of the current Idaho property tax laws and how the 3 percent, plus growth budget limitation law works, ... Obviously local property tax budgets are growing more than 3 percent per year. We are helping show how that happens.

Our costs are going up in every category players, travel, you name it. Our budget never shrinks from year to year, it only grows.

Overall, it's a very good budget, especially looking at his proposal for teacher recruitment and retention.

It is a very moderate hike and investors had factored in an increase before the presentation of the budget.

Mahesh Rangarajan

It is a very careful budget. Definitely it is a budget made with poll calculations in mind.

I see a trend. Our kids are getting into trouble and going to jail. Sixty-five percent of the county budget goes to jail and rehab, and that's fine, but only 16 percent of our budget goes to prevention programs.

Jacques Chirac

I requested a budget to support employment, spending power and the preparation of the future. This 2006 budget meets this requirements,

People immediately think budgeting means getting rid of the things they love the most.

People have to minimize the use of home equity for short term financial needs. Get your budget in order. Home equity lines of credit are for long-term financial needs. They were not meant to buy cars and trips and fuel overspending.

State employees and other Californians are facing tough times right now, ... We've seen state budget deficits over the last several years. The timing for a legislative pay increase isn't right.

State and local budgets can be corrected by small changes in the relative growth rates of spending and tax revenues, rather than by jarring policy initiatives.

Spending restraint was a major priority in the budget process, and the proof is in the pudding.

That comes so late in the year, it's probably not going to have any effect on this year's budget. A lot of it also depends on how many games we'll get next year, but certainly the increased revenue will be a good cushion.

That doesn't leave a lot of extra money in the budget to support the types of things we're talking about. The things we're talking about would cost a lot of money sustained over time and that will be difficult for the city council. The city council is not going to be able to pull a rabbit out of their hat. It's going to take voter support.

That exponentially increases the budget for this mayor's race.

That doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense given this year's budget situation.

Peter Phillips

Narcotics trafficking has spawned a criminal elite that is fighting to control a budget the same size as that presented in Parliament by our minister of finance, but without any of the obligations for debt, employment and services, which is placed on the elected government.

Local and provincial governance needs to be improved. There will have to be hard budget constraints.

Little or no increase in what the state pays to take care of its most troubled children has resulted in a $100 million budget hole.

I wish we had a finance director. We're working on the budget, for goodness sake. It would help us in getting together a budget and a five-year plan.

I was hopeful that they were going to take a stand and vote to make it official that they intend to eliminate (longevity pay) during the next budget cycle. Voting in favor of eliminating it today would have sent a strong message to the voters and they chose not to do it. I was glad that Joe Jaynes did take a stand and make a motion, but I was disappointed that there was no second.

I was informed in early January that they had eliminated my job. Financially, times are very tight (at the station). We've made some big investments in the Broncos, Oprah Winfrey and the Web site. The way it was explained to me was that the station budget would no longer support a morning sports guy.