Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are rightly concerned about the impact that this particular development will have on our TOT receipts, especially at a time when our budget is so tight.

We are operating on a shoe-string budget as a community theatre and need funding.

Positively, ... Is my budget in jeopardy? Yes. I predicted a $1.80 cost per gallon without predicting gas going up more than 20 cents because of a hurricane.

Portman is going to have his work cut out for him, mainly because the Bush budget was dead on arrival.

Next year's budget will clearly show education spending from the General Fund going up.

Maya MacGuineas

Next year's budget has already been derailed and the new fiscal year hasn't even begun,

Nearly 60 percent of the 2006 budget is targeting projects that are expected to provide little or no volume growth this year but should contribute to strong growth in 2007 and beyond.

Ken Salazar

On principle, I am not opposed to selling U.S. Forest Service parcels, but I am troubled by the idea of doing it to fill a budgetary need.

Bob Goodlatte

On the last farm bill, we had a budget surplus for the first time in 30 years. That contributed to having a lot of money available...

One of the good things about the public Human Genome Project is that the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health spent a part of their budget on the ethical, legal, and social implications of their research.

I work in film, TV, commercials and do live PR stunts for companies. A lot of my time is spent reading scripts and looking at designing sequences, speaking to directors and producers about how they want the sequences to look, how they will work and budgeting those stunts.

But a sour-loan solution remains elusive, the supplementary budget is unlikely to do much for the economy, and the future direction for Wall Street remains unclear.

Basically, we know how to budget and we know how to save. We just aren't sure what to do with it once we've got it.

I feel we can justify every dollar of this. I think our job now is to convince the county commissioners, and enlist the support of the public in convincing the county commissioners, how important it is we get this budget approved.

For smaller businesses, their budgets are often so tight that they're really fretful about putting money into prevention because they're not sure it's a tangible investment for them.

For schools and other government buildings, it is essentially important in times of tight budgets and high fuel prices to focus on energy savings.

Fuel costs are still a small part of vacation budgets. For most people, that's not a deal breaker.

Funding for the major recommendations will go to Congress in the Defense budget on Monday and Congress will have its say on them.

I don't think we should spend a nickel out of that budget to replace any jobs -- create any new jobs -- buy any new equipment.

Scott Sanders

I don't want people to get the notion we're getting fat and happy. The budget is lean. It's more honest in where costs are being incurred and clearer on where the costs are.

From the start, it was very difficult to budget because we had no way of knowing how expensive the travel and hotel charges would be.

Given the scope, the magnitude and disruption, it went extremely smoothly. It came in on schedule and on budget.

Tom Daschle

to convey our serious concerns about the deteriorating condition of the federal budget and the nation's economy.

Katrina is to the domestic budget what Sputnik was to the space program,

George H. W. Bush

Joel Kaplan is a man of great talent, intellect and experience who possesses a deep knowledge of policy and budget processes.

IT budgets remain closely scrutinized and customers continue to exert conservative capital spending strategies.

IT budgets, often strained by the need for real estate, power and cooling, will shift toward building new applications and IT services that are specifically developed to drive new business.

I think it's important for kids to budget their time. I'm a big proponent of kids doing multiple sports. I like to think we put an emphasis on balance.

We can do this with monies out of our public works budget.

Gilles Duceppe

There is a firm confirmation that it (the imbalance) exists. This is a budget of transition. The real budget will be next year. We'll see next year if they deliver.

There is no consensus at all about what the budget debate is supposed to accomplish.

There is no cheap way to be better prepared. It takes money -- more money than this budget offers.

G. H. Hardy

There is no budget shortfall per se. We were challenged in putting together the budget year because of the loss of federal funding.