Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Collins

It's a budgetary challenge, ... It was a challenge last year and it's going to be a challenge this year as well.

It is very important to know what has stabilized Earth's heat, carbon dioxide and water budgets,

It's a great budget. What we saw before was DOT trying to build its way out of congestion.

It's a great budget for the environment, it really is. It's more money than they've ever put into the environment.

It's a difficult budget climate. Where one comes up with the extra dollars to make a concentrated investment in port security is a very serious question.

It's going to be easy to say that Gary cost (CU) the tennis team. But the budget cuts were on the table before that.

It's gonna be a steady rate so that way you don't have to worry about it increasing. So you'll know how to budget your money.

Justin Smith

It's frustrating limiting it to 200 pages when you have papers and notes to print out. It's also frustrating knowing that there is a limit and having to budget how many pages I print out.

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 one thing you don't budget for. It's nice to have ... especially at this time of year. You just turn it on, and it cools it down,

It's the most outstanding education budget I've seen in my 31 sessions.

George Romero

It's a lot harder to do anything that's that edgy 'cause the execs don't wanna hear about it... but we're trying to raise some European money and see if we can get a low budget together.

It's a lot easier budget year than we thought. For the time being, it looks like an improved fiscal outlook.

It's already in the city council budget to build a new, higher building.

It looks to be getting some legs here. It's starting to move forward. There's definitely more interest in it out there because it's a way to be more efficient -- more streamlined. IT budgets are still tight, business demands are increasing and there's a general climate of cost containment. It's all making for a huge push on this.

John Scofield

It makes a difficult job even harder, because there are holes we have to fill. Some of these proposals aren't new, but in an even tighter budget year, the problems are exacerbated.

Instead of having a choice between six or seven home where they are competing. They now have a choice between 30 to 40 homes in their budget range. Now they can look and examine and it will take them longer.

Instead, the president's subsequent budgets have increased funding for all of these programs. The country can meet the goal of cutting the deficit in half and still invest in key programs for vulnerable Americans, and claims to the contrary aren't supported by the facts of recent budget history.

In order to make it feasible, you have to put some kind of income element. We just did the budget and in this day and age, you have to try and find a way of sustaining something without always it being taxes.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your nation tomorrow, then you'd better rethink how you allocate taxes to fund science. The federal budget needs to recognize this.

I noticed some people having a hard time getting out of their driveways because of the long chain of traffic that is there - buses, people trying to get to work. I've actually had to budget my time to the point where instead of leaving at quarter to eight like I used to do, now I have to leave at 7:15.

I'm worried, Larry. I think it's imperative that we start to budget and plan.

In economic terms at least, Wednesday's budget seems set to be a very low key affair.

I never felt very cavalier about over-spending what's in the budget.

In a time when education budgets are increasingly tighter than ever, every dollar counts when it comes to school funding. This is especially true for unrestricted funds in which schools can decide for themselves how to use the money -- whether it's for teacher training, special field trips, school supplies, playground equipment, musical instruments and more. We've found that every school has a wish list, and we want to help them fill it.

In a situation where the state is facing budget problems, it's hard to convince voters that you can do a lot. If it was so easy to provide property-tax relief, surely they would have already done so. It's easier to attack.

In an era when the nation's collective imagination is no longer captured by space, real science sometimes has a smaller budget than science fiction.

Nancy Allen

I'm not sure I get a budget (from Jones) that is prioritized,

In the past, when we had the more difficult budget years, it was considered successful if we were able to retain $65 million in general fund money for the Centennial Highway Fund.

In the midst of budget reviews for 1998, this is clearly an appropriate time for such a review.

In the budget climate of California, the governor feels he shouldn't unduly burden the taxpayers.

In terms of fiscal policy very little is expected from the budget.