Famous Quotes & Sayings

The governor has made his intentions on right to work and prevailing wage very clear as evidenced by their inclusion of each of those measures in the budget he submitted to the House.

The government will have to provide budgetary provision for the purpose...we demand that the rate of interest on EPF must be retained at 9.5 per cent.

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.

We've been planning for this for several years, and the original budget for the renovations was $500,000 (for each station), but that ended up being about $250,000 short.

The government's plan to cut the deficit will pay off if the economy continues to accelerate. The budget deficit next year, which would be the lowest since 1980, means there won't be pressure on rates to rise.

The government delayed its budget spending till the second half of the year.

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.

Turn-outs run $2,500 to $3,000 each. If a fire department has 10 volunteers, every five years they must budget for a $30,000 expenditure, just to keep up with this code alone.

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.

John Kasich

We should start together. The president has started this race from Chicago which is why this budget isn't balanced,

We shouldn't hold the budget hostage for issues over tax increases or transportation. They can be resolved in a special session later.

Steve Stivers

I've actually cut my personal pay individually; we didn't vote on that, but I've done that individually. It's important that folks know that we're going to roll up our sleeves and work on things, and members of Congress are going to sacrifice our own budgets first.

Frank Bruno

We have money in the budget to do that,

Joshua Bolten

We must also redouble our efforts to reduce unnecessary spending elsewhere in the budget to help offset recovery costs and keep us on track of meeting the president's gal of cutting the deficit in half by 2009,

Richard Shelby

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

When you are talking about a budget for 2007 of $2,400bn, I don't want to sound crass, but $9bn is a rounding error.

When the federal government increases the budget deficit it increases interest rates on everybody, so it is like a tax increase on borrowing. What that means is that mortgages will be more expensive.

Nancy Pelosi

When we take this vote, we will make this budget very hot for the Republicans to handle,

Arlen Specter

When we take a look at the budget for the National Institutes of Health at $28 billion, it is, candidly, scandalous that with our resources, our resource capability, research capability in biomedical science, that people are still dying of breast cancer or colon cancer or heart disease.

Phil Parkinson

We've overachieved simply by staying in this division. We budget to go out in the first round and now we're in the fifth round.

The President's budget represents a starting point for what is certain to be a long debate in the Congress over the priorities of government.

The president's budget numbers for the low income energy and energy efficiency programs are inadequate given the energy costs confronting consumers today.

First, a budget has to reflect the goals and objectives of the district, and this budget does not do that.

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.

Carey Mulligan

We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.

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.

The reason for the motion is council wants it documented in the budget for auditing reasons.

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 some reason to be surprised that it's this much. The Congressional Budget Office had estimated the defense department would need $85bn and that was with no drawdown in troops.

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

Dan Glickman

There is not a budget cap on firefighting, ... When it comes to natural disasters, the government does respond, and Congress does respond, the president does respond.