Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Tony Snow

There's no consensus on cutting the budget, solving the illegal immigration problem, tackling the looming meltdown of Medicare and Social Security or making a concerted effort to win the hearts of minority voters.

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

We could be continuing until March 2003 under this year's budget.

We're very pleased, ... We think this is a very sound budget. It does keep the tax rate the same.

The issue of high school tuition and high school costs dominating, in some cases, small sending school budgets is not a new thing. The penalty threshold is.

The consumer confidence report will be closely watched to see if higher energy prices are hurting household budgets.

I'm not questioning the viability of the project ... we should be designing and building for the grant money we received ... and work hard to stay within those budgets.

In communities where there are many charter schools those communities have had very negative effects. They have seen serious deficits in putting there budgets together because of all the money they have to send to charter schools.

In a person's budget, there's about 15% fat that they can get rid of without really feeling it.

Laurent Fabius

derail economic expectations of economic agents, and put public budgets in danger of new imbalances.

Everybody has 15% to 20% of fat in their budget.

It's come to an end. We're on sure footing for the 2006 budget.

There's the 'official' budget, there's the 'rumored' budget, and then there are the various deals struck with exhibitors and the talent, ... There's a lot of mystery there.

David Hess

There's very little wiggle room from the 2005 budget,

This is, I think, a day we can truthfully say we have met the needs of the people in the state with this budget, with this revenue package.

This is consistent with our February 2002 worldwide IT spending survey results, which indicated that IT budgets remain highly uncertain and that IT capital spending growth in 2002 is likely to be modest.

I'm excited because education is a priority in this budget. But I'm concerned the state is still deficit-spending, and that could put us at risk.

Cleo Moore

I made a number of pictures, strictly C-pictures that were done on small budgets with a crackerjack director and actor who's now dead, Hugo Haas.

Charles Djou

I'm very disappointed. I fought very hard to make sure funding stayed in the budget.

That's the figure we'll be working with in our budget.

Elizabeth Smith

It's something we didn't plan on in our budget.

Steve Smith

Education has always been a sacred cow in state budgets. There's a constitutional responsibility to provide all students a decent one.

Instead, the president's subsequent budgets have increased funding for all of these programs. The country can meet the goal of cutting the deficit in half and still invest in key programs for vulnerable Americans, and claims to the contrary aren't supported by the facts of recent budget history.

In terms of fiscal policy very little is expected from the budget.

High gas prices had a devastating impact on consumers' budgets and caused consumers to expect a worsening financial situation during the year ahead.

Ben Bernanke

High energy prices are burdening household budgets and raising production costs, and continued increases would at some point restrain economic growth.

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.

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.