Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eight years ago, our future was at risk, ... Economic growth was low, unemployment was high, interest rates were high, the federal debt had quadrupled in the previous 12 years. When Vice President Gore and I took office, the budget deficit was $290 billion, and it was projected this year the budget deficit would be $455 billion.

Steve Smith

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

Everyone doesn't necessarily spend 100 percent of their budget amounts in a given year.

Everybody is in the same position, waiting to see what will be in the budget in regard to the Energy Policy Act.

Steve was my division commander. He helped me get through so much. He taught me how to prepare a budget and take inventory. He helped me wade through all the paper work. He helped all of us - that's just the kind of guy he is.

The agency's budget is critically dependent on pleasing these senators. We found that there was some favoritism on the states that were represented,

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.

There was a national evaluation that showed it just wasn't producing the results we wanted. Also, it didn't leave flexibility. During a time of budget tightness we discontinued it.

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.

Once our budget is recouped from our preorders and sales that week, that's usually the time we lower prices. We need to make it back up for the office to run the rest of the year.

The new facility will be closer to the aesthetics of a typical Buddhist Temple.

After the third budget and into the third (year), and (they're) far, far short of meeting that promise.

It's not a steep cut. But this budget continues the erosion that's been going on for six years.

Any adjustments would have to be made through the budget process.

Any time you have items budgeted on funds that are there for only one year, but you know next year you are going to have to pay for them, you have got to figure out where the money is going to come from, ... We were very, very grateful for the money we received, but the way it came has created some internal budget challenges.

It showed that you could make a $200 million movie that actually didn't bomb, because most of the big budget movies up until that time had failed.

It's a very good plan in terms of design. (But) we have a number of questions about the financing in the context of a tight budget situation.

It's been a dream of ours for probably at least 10 years to open a skateboarding store. When I got laid off (from my job) recently, I couldn't find a job that really interested me, and my buddies said, 'let's open the store,' so we did.

E. O. Wilson

It's good when you qualify a relay because then they feed off each other. Those four guys were always able to fire each other up. (In Canton) Justin tried to get some strength from his buddies on Westerville North and St. Charles, but it's not quite the same thing.

It's pretty neat being able to have my family come over for the Friday and Saturday games. I hear it will also be on TV, so it's cool that some of my buddies will be able to get together and watch it. It's sort of the hot ticket (in Vancouver) and all the hype makes it fun and exciting to play.

Laurent Fabius

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

Wayne Allard

Despite an incredibly tight budget year, we still managed to meet our obligations to provide local governments with this critical funding.

Doing more with less. We receive less per pupil funding than DOE (state Department of Education) schools. We have learned to prioritize our budget and to put our money where our vision is.

The numbers are pretty good for a New Jersey governor heading full tilt into an unprecedented budget crisis. He is going to need some of that good will to get through the budget season.

The numbers are here. The budget is credible.

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

That's practically business as usual. Given Michigan's recession and Detroit's past budget difficulties, it's not what I'd hoped for. But there does seem to be some restraint here, and that's a silver lining. Thirty-five million is a tiny increase in regards to the budget.

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

That is, indeed, the true budget we have today,

David Carr

That land has been hard to come by. It's crazy to be selling it off to meet short-term budget needs.

Juan Marichal

That man helped us so much. We stopped in some places to eat and that man used to go from the back door through the kitchen with us to make sure we had something to eat, ... I don't think without that help from Buddy Kerr we could have made it. We would never have come back.