Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Vaughn

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

The question is: what happens with our existing funding? We've already had $100 million in reductions in public-health grants in the president's 2006 budget request. Public health is still in a big hole.

Ben Bernanke

The prospective increase in the budget deficit will place at risk future living standards of our country. As a result, I think it would be very desirable to take concrete steps to lower the prospective path of the deficit.

The proposed budget is realistic and deserves our support.

The proposal I'm putting before the Council (today) is a result of all of the budget workshops they've had, all the information I've gleaned from that, plus the Council's goals and objectives.

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.

Pico Iyer

It's an old principle, as old as the Buddha or Marcus Aurelius: We need at times to step away from our lives in order to put them in perspective. Especially if we wish to be productive.

(Wells) drives a Corvette and didn't have room for Buddy and her child.

Joe Turner

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

We do have a budget in place for things like this and we certainly activated that on Friday.

We won't know exactly what our tax revenues will be until March 25. Until then we'll hold the line and present a lean budget to the board.

Abel Ferrara

I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

Sarah Addison Allen

At any given time I'm listening to the Cory Branan, Leonna Naess, Eve 6, the King's Noyse, Sean Paul, Green Day, the BoDeans, Buddy Holly, Nowell Sing We Clear... the list goes on and on. But I rarely listen to music while I write. I start typing the lyrics.

Si Robertson

When I started out in the duck-call business, my college buddies would come in and say, 'Robertson, you have a college degree. What are you doing?' Then they drove away saying, 'What an idiot!' Thirty-five years later, they're saying, 'The sucker's a genius!'

The defense budget continues to grow but at this point, most of the growth is completely dependent on the war-related funding not yet included in the numbers.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

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.

We have a limited budget and need to prioritize our money, and since we had not received a plan, we ceased discussing that possibility.

We wanted to hold a nonpartisan rally to show a good portion of the town supports a quality education and wants a chance to vote on the budget before it's cut further.

We've got some folks that have production budgets using numbers from 1999. That just wasn't information that was going to be helpful to us today.

We've known for years that there are some easy things on paper. But it's politically hard to limit the budgetary footprint of the federal government. Any item you try and cut, you're going to tick off an 800-pound gorilla that fights with a sledgehammer.

We have to look at all areas. I have to plan for a $218,000 deficit. The referendum could fail. If it does, I've got to have the budget balanced.

We're working under a tight budget this year, very tight.

We're under way to having the budget produced

Utility costs represent a sizeable increase of the proposed budget request by 75 percent. Our utility costs are up $740,000 over FY06. We are working on a strategic education plan for the schools that will have a vision statement.

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.

Pat Mastelotto

We're looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might enjoy listening to ourselves. If anything we are trying to develop a vocabulary so we can converse more fluidly.

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,