Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Moore

When you look at our budget situation today, this is just a fiscal calamity, ... We're looking at, for the next five years, half a trillion dollars of budget deficits.

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,

While I think that 18 (months) is somewhat better than 24 (months), the truth of the matter is those numbers are sufficiently imprecise, and the whole thing is sufficiently unlikely that it seemed more suitable, especially given our continued budget pressure, to stick with 24 months.

While homeland security, the budget and the economy are on the front burner, we must continue to improve our public education system.

With the budget cuts, we felt there was a real need for an organization to focus on fund-raising programs for the entire school district.

Bud Selig

said Wells. ''I can't wait to win the World Series and have Bud Selig come up to me. I really can't. Who knows what will come out then?

School districts are regularly complaining about the need for more money, and so they need to systematically go though their budgets and consider privatization and sharing services.

Schwarzenegger's budget is smoke and mirrors; we need a governor who will be more serious and frank and honest with the voters.

Alex Smith

Put this budget to a vote as it stands. It's the right thing to do.

Yevgeny Primakov

Quickly passing the budget will strengthen our stance in the talks with international financial organizations,

Rand Paul

Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. will isolate it if it insists on acting like a rogue nation.

Thomas Hardy

Rays from the sunrise drew forth the buds and stretched them into long stalks, lifted up sap in noiseless streams, opened petals, and sucked out scents in invisible jets and breathings.

Prices are high -- the question is why? We have enough crude oil and gasoline to meet current demand, and yet the cost of fuel continues to cause budget concerns for many consumers.

Jack Warner

The simple fact is that no budget could have sensibly been prepared unless all the facts and figures are available, where, by and large, they now are.

The simple fact is big budgets and optimization of search technology tend to win the battle.

The switch from working in a highly structured environment with a clear systems development methodology with a longer-term work schedule and budgets vs. 'get it done, get it out, get going' for some IT people, that raises concerns about quality. Deadlines are more important than quality.

The thrust of the budget is to improve the standard of living of citizens, of course, to create more jobs for nationals.

The Southern Sudan government budget depends on its share of oil revenue. With limited resources, the southern regional government cannot pay for a new judicial system or police department, nor can it implement plans to improve social services and build infrastructure.

The thing to do is increase the budget of the National Science Foundation.

G. H. Hardy

It was better for the budget at the time to go public safety. It has saved some money, but through the years I guess it wore out its usefulness. We're having fewer fires so we're needing less manpower.

They're rebuilding, and I know how that feels. It's not an easy situation that he (NSU coach Chip Durham) is in, and we're hoping and pulling for him. Tonight, Buddy just didn't give them any life.

They're really a financially conservative company. They are what they are -- they can do relatively small budget films with a nice potential upside.

They're acknowledging the problem, which is a good first step for them. Spending has gone pretty wild here when you're looking at 10 per cent increases in the health budget alone.

Gayle King

There's a science to ordering potatoes. Are they skinny shoestring or big, fat steak fries? You just have to let your taste buds guide you when deciding what to eat.

There's been no budget or funding for it.

There's even an outside chance of a budget surplus.

There's always a financial risk. You don't budget to make money on it - or, we never make money - we don't budget for full houses.

Sandra Tsing Loh

The very success of the modern American family - where kids get punctually to SAT-tutoring classes, the mortgage gets paid, the second-story remodel stays on budget - surely depends on spouses' not being in love.

The SBA lending environment has been active, and we expect it to continue as such. In the short term, the budget decisions are going to mean very little, if anything, and I presume the same thing will hold over the long term.

I've seen Buddy and the way he handles the (father-son) situation, and I think he does an excellent job.

It moves cost from capital expense that needs to be depreciated to the operating budget, so it's easier to budget for.

Chuck Yeager

It's a payoff to John Glenn for his support of (President) Clinton and also the NASA budget. NASA needs the publicity and they couldn't have picked a better guy to hype the space program.

It's anybody's guess. But what is written on the horizon is we've got a whopper of a budget problem.