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He hopes that the students stay engaged throughout this process and that they participate on campus as college presidents make the same kinds of tough decisions that the governor did with this budget.

Given the scope, the magnitude and disruption, it went extremely smoothly. It came in on schedule and on budget.

If we moderate prices, it's not the research and development budgets that would be the first to go down. The profit margins, which are three to four times the profit margins of other Fortune 500 companies, they might go down somewhat -- not research and development,

If we didn't want more, we wouldn't be having this discussion. I would simply say, yes, fund our budget.

There are school budgets that are being voted down around New Jersey even though they're efficient budgets, they're good budgets, because people can't see straight regarding property taxes. It has become such a burden that the way education funding has played its way out in the state as a result of the various Abbott decisions that we've got a real crisis on our hands.

John Sweeney

We have serious constitutional concerns about how the legislature drafted this portion of their budget. And I would not venture to speculate on whether the governor will veto this item.

This will help our schools tremendously. Their budgets have been strained, and they have had to use reserve funds to be able to reopen schools while paperwork for insurance and FEMA is being processed.

Austan Goolsbee

Giving Northern Europe a veto over Southern Europe's budgets will not hold a monetary union together. The euro zone will continue to need the weaker countries to stomach decades of high unemployment to grind down wages.

Bernie Sanders

For too long, unfunded federal mandates have drained the budgets of states and communities. The strength and vitality of our communities must be restored.

To punish villages by cutting budgets if they are led by Islamic leaders, especially if those villages are led by Islamic Movement activists, is fascist.

Firms have cut back on their capital spending budgets to the point where some of them are not even replacing worn-out equipment. It's been quite a dramatic pullback, and in some sense there's some pent-up demand out there for capital equipment.

But some nursing homes are really going to suffer because of the governor's budget.

Bill Evans

With debt servicing ratios at record highs, house prices likely to remain soft and petrol prices stressing some household budgets a sharp resurgence in consumer spending seems unlikely,

Richard Shelby

We must also look for ways to reduce mandatory spending which comprises more than two-thirds of the federal budget.

We don't want to duplicate our efforts with the dollars each of our budgets have. We want to expand that story and hopefully cover all points in doing it at different sites.

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

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

We also made a decision that we were going to become less reliant on daily rental business -- sales to the Avis, Hertz, Budgets of the world.

Jeff Francis

To see between 10 and 20 defeats is not unusual. In 2003 there were 42 budgets defeated. In 2004 there were only six. Between 10 and 20 defeats is not uncommon.

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

Tom Daschle

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

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.

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.

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.

Lisa Anderson

I think gas prices have had a definite impact on people who do not have a specific destination planned in advance, ... A lot of the fall foliage travelers are seniors. Because their budgets are impacted more dramatically, I don't think they'll be traveling as much.

It is not necessary or even possible for us to massively increase the defense budget,

It is more difficult to get public funds for sports facilities. State and local budgets are strained, services are being cut, taxes are being raised.

Eric Johnson

Like most budgets, it's a roller coaster, ... We will strap ourselves in and see how many loop-de-loops there are.

Late this summer we'll be going into union discussions. That contract expires Nov. 30, so we'll need to pull that stuff together. And then we've got budgets to work on. There's going to be quite a few key administrative things that the new director is going to have to deal with pretty much from the get-go.

We're seeing a firming of IT budgets throughout the United States, ... We are seeing budgets get set.

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