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Overall, it's a very good budget. It's a 6 percent to 7 percent increase. Considering what other states are doing, it's substantial.

Overall, it's a very good budget, especially looking at his proposal for teacher recruitment and retention.

State and local budgets can be corrected by small changes in the relative growth rates of spending and tax revenues, rather than by jarring policy initiatives.

That comes so late in the year, it's probably not going to have any effect on this year's budget. A lot of it also depends on how many games we'll get next year, but certainly the increased revenue will be a good cushion.

It is a very moderate hike and investors had factored in an increase before the presentation of the budget.

I think it's particularly important as all the defense budgets around the world come under pressure that we have a balance.

It is not necessary or even possible for us to massively increase the defense budget,

It is more difficult to get public funds for sports facilities. State and local budgets are strained, services are being cut, taxes are being raised.

Eric Johnson

Like most budgets, it's a roller coaster, ... We will strap ourselves in and see how many loop-de-loops there are.

Late this summer we'll be going into union discussions. That contract expires Nov. 30, so we'll need to pull that stuff together. And then we've got budgets to work on. There's going to be quite a few key administrative things that the new director is going to have to deal with pretty much from the get-go.

(Residents) have to recognize the selectmen drive the manager in this town. Budgets are not made up at the last minute . . . If you're going to make changes you have to make it at the selectmen level.

(Residents) have to recognize the selectmen drive the manager in this town, ... Budgets are not made up at the last minute . . . If you're going to make changes you have to make it at the selectmen level.

Budgets are doomed to fail because people cut out all of the fun in their life. People need to have leeway.

When they pay us back, it will all be put back in the budgets like it came out,

Colleen Atwood

Be really good with budgets because they keep getting smaller.

If we moderate prices, it's not the research and development budgets that would be the first to go down. The profit margins, which are three to four times the profit margins of other Fortune 500 companies, they might go down somewhat -- not research and development,

We're confident we can get a rate that works in the 2006 budget,

Making decisions all the time leaves less time to reflect. At the time I'm knee-deep in budgets, so today I just walked . . . through classrooms. I see the faces of the kids to clear my head. It helps them to be visible to me.

(Music) is one of the things that always gets cut when schools face (financial) difficulties. When I was in school, we had instruments and uniforms and we had great budgets and we took trips and now it's wham! Everything is gone.

More than anything else, this one program threatens the long-term federal budget.

Nobody would have wished or known that the recession was going to be so bad, that budgets would be so bad. But that doesn't change the fact that we have these standards.

Many companies are very conscious about budgets today. So the $35 to $100 price points are very popular with corporate accounts.

If we didn't want more, we wouldn't be having this discussion. I would simply say, yes, fund our budget.

Lisa Anderson

I think gas prices have had a definite impact on people who do not have a specific destination planned in advance, ... A lot of the fall foliage travelers are seniors. Because their budgets are impacted more dramatically, I don't think they'll be traveling as much.

As we put together this year's budget, we'll probably be taking a closer look at that.

All our businesses are increasing market share relative to their competitors. Our numbers exceeded budget.

Andrew Jackson

Soaring gasoline and natural gas prices will have a major negative impact on family budgets and household spending, likely resulting in job losses in sectors like tourism and retail trade.

It's come to an end. We're on sure footing for the 2006 budget.

Laurent Fabius

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

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

The number of individuals and families in Georgia who buy their own health insurance is growing every day and, like all Americans, they are struggling to fit another expense into their budgets at a time when everything seems to cost more from the gas pump to home heating.

The consumer confidence report will be closely watched to see if higher energy prices are hurting household budgets.

I'm not questioning the viability of the project ... we should be designing and building for the grant money we received ... and work hard to stay within those budgets.