Famous Quotes & Sayings

The president has rejected calls to raise taxes. The (White House) Office of Management and Budget will be working with Congress to cut unnecessary spending in the federal budget to handle the concerns raised by Katrina.

Lawrence Summers

The president has made it very clear that he will not sign any budget measure that doesn't put Social Security and Medicare first, that doesn't take those steps forward (and) certainly any measures that would put at risk the progress we've made in paying down the debt,

Pete Domenici

The president has been promising us certain things, and the American people certain things, and this budget does the exact opposite, ... Fox News Sunday.

The president continues to take his message to the American people, outlining his budget and tax cut plans, and the mercantile exchange is a good venue to talk about economic growth.

Bill Richardson

The president and his friends on Capitol Hill have put together a budget that does not reflect the values of everyday Americans.

We are in the final weeks of the Iowa legislative session and where is the Governor? He's been in Florida, Washington D.C. and New York, just in the past four days. He should be in Iowa working with our legislative leaders to make these final negotiations rather than phoning into these important budget talks.

We are in a position right now of already having to rethink our budget estimate for 2006.

Little or no increase in what the state pays to take care of its most troubled children has resulted in a $100 million budget hole.

I wish we had a finance director. We're working on the budget, for goodness sake. It would help us in getting together a budget and a five-year plan.

I was hopeful that they were going to take a stand and vote to make it official that they intend to eliminate (longevity pay) during the next budget cycle. Voting in favor of eliminating it today would have sent a strong message to the voters and they chose not to do it. I was glad that Joe Jaynes did take a stand and make a motion, but I was disappointed that there was no second.

I was informed in early January that they had eliminated my job. Financially, times are very tight (at the station). We've made some big investments in the Broncos, Oprah Winfrey and the Web site. The way it was explained to me was that the station budget would no longer support a morning sports guy.

It doesn't matter whether funding comes from a dedicated budget or from R&D. The trend is to remove funding from commercial ties to better comply with new industry trends. Some companies still rely on marketing or commercial ops for funding, but transition takes awhile, especially with larger companies.

I teach English, but I also coordinate the honors program. I told them that and they were devastated. They decided they would like the honors program to take that on with whatever extent we could with no budget.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

It drove them nuts, ... But the interesting thing about it is, the following week they signed the budget exactly the way it was a week before.

It does seem that there needs to be some sort of a fiduciary watchdog over (the commission's) budget. These are public funds and need to be handled prudently.

It has become clear that Gordon Brown's budget forecasts are no longer in the realms of possibility.

When it comes to budget decisions that would help us fight the long war, they either change nothing or walk in the wrong direction.

Eric Hyman

When it's all said and done, I'm held responsible for our budget. If I had the latitude, there's nothing I would rather do than grant everybody's wishes. Unfortunately, I'm not in that position.

Jay Inslee

We can see the dollar figure cut out of the education budget that was put in by the Senate,

We hope the Legislature takes to heart our previous warnings about the budget shortfall and the need for fiscal responsibility.

We hope the leadership will find it in their hearts and minds and budgets to bump us up a bit.

We hope that the budget is such that next year, finally, these important investments can be made in our state?s future.

Bart Stupak

While costs for full interoperability are estimated at $18 billion, for the second year in a row the president's budget completely zeros out specific funding for interoperability,

We're budgeted for this year. We did the budgeting for this year in the spring, so our year is set. However, if the price remains high or goes higher, then we may have to drop a home-and-home series with someone.

We don't see this as a budget exercise. It's about management excellence.

David Brown

We don't have a budget problem at this point. We've spent about half of our budget. We budgeted $3-million, and we spent about $1.7-million so far.

Chaka Fattah

Well, first of all, one word you will not hear this administration use when they talk about the budget is a simple word called balance.

Unfortunately, when budget cuts are looming, CSP could be a target.

We didn't budget enough in salaries and we had a shortfall in state and local revenues.

Greg Davis

We don't have the budget to do that.

George Murphy

We don't have money in our budget for technology. We had to find an economical way to meet our storage needs.

We are a can-do agency, used to getting it all done even if we have to make some tough decisions. But we are seeing hits in all budget areas, so it's not like there's a whole lot of extra money that we can take for travel planning. We're hoping to get some direction in how to prioritize, given our funding level.

We are right on target in terms of our budget so far this year.