Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Riedl

President Bush's pledge to halve the budget deficit by 2009 distracts policymakers from the real issue of unsustainable trends in long-term entitlement spending. The president's proposal to slow Medicare's 9% annual growth rate is a good fiscal step, but the budget does not propose enough immediate and bold reforms to the quickly growing entitlement programs that threaten to overwhelm the budget.

Dominic Jones

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Eric Hyman

Our objective is to try to do this on an annual basis. We want to reconnect with our past. Our past is very important to us.

Rick Grice

(Statewide), the annual average wage and salary employment grew more than 46,000 jobs to a level nearly equal to the 2001 all-time high.

Melinda Schwartz

That cookbook quickly sold out and we've had requests for another. We thought it would be great to honor the 10th annual relay with a new cookbook.

Steven Benner

Our plan is to shoot for the goal of reaching $1 billion in total operating revenue and delivering 25 percent top- and bottom-line annual growth from now until 2010.

Peter Robertson

Our strong earnings and cash flows are enabling us to return cash to our stockholders and at the same time, fund a robust capital program, which in 2006 will be the highest annual spending in our history.

Ron Osborne

Our workshop is the only venue of its kind in the state that provides an annual forum for face-to-face training and information sharing on a wide range of emergency management topics.

David Montanye

Our budget on an annual basis this past year is $660,000. We currently have expended $400,000 over that budget.

Frank Biondi

Success in our business is more incremental rather than great leaps and bold strides.

Ashley Jones

Someone can do three episodes of 'The Bold and the Beautiful,' then turn around and book a primetime show. That's happening all the time.

John Russell

Our brand is unique, offering the style and amenities of the world's leading upscale hotels at mid-scale rates of $115 to $135 per night, ... We've redefined the mid-scale segment of the market with a new generation of hotels featuring loft accommodations that are well-priced, boldly designed, dynamic and fun.

Mel Martinez

We need a new Latin American policy that is bold - different. We need to focus on building civil society, focus on the lack of infrastructure. We need look at ways to foster economic opportunity. There needs to be a more comprehensive economic vision in the region.

Galina Espinoza

I think we can expect her to go for a bold dress on Oscar night. One that really calls attention.

David Vitter

I welcome the boldness of his vision. ... Clearly the tough work remains to be done, and everybody, including Congress, needs to roll up their sleeves and get that work done.

Gary Cowger

Like the SSR, it's a bold nod to the past and a big step into the future. The concept for this goes back to when we looked at how we can use Chevy's heritage.

Gary Cowger

Like the SSR, it's a bold nod to the past and a big step into the future, ... The concept for this goes back to when we looked at how we can use Chevy's heritage.

Bob Geldof

I think he's really throwing down the gauntlet. It's a very bold move, ... comes from despair and lack of hope.

Alan Kopit

Regularly using liquid savings to cover normal expenses may indicate you are not planning properly. If you find yourself doing that, you should reassess your overall budget strategy.

Paul Gaffney

Our obligation is for the right budget for our schools.

Willy Koppel

Our materials budget for the current year is $19,500, which is the lowest it's been in many years. The proposed budget that you have presented to us is $10,000 for the year.

Dennis Taylor

Our No. 1 goal is to restore budget cuts, and No. 2 is financial aid.

Richard Stein

Our mission is to create the right condition for learning with affordability and quality. Hopefully residents will see that. This budget is not going to be an easy task.

Adriane Berg

People immediately think budgeting means getting rid of the things they love the most.

Gary Ambrose

People have to minimize the use of home equity for short term financial needs. Get your budget in order. Home equity lines of credit are for long-term financial needs. They were not meant to buy cars and trips and fuel overspending.

Jeff Denham

State employees and other Californians are facing tough times right now, ... We've seen state budget deficits over the last several years. The timing for a legislative pay increase isn't right.

Robert DiClemente

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.

Robert DiClemente

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.

Marilyn Heifner

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.

Tom Daschle

Our tax cut has to fit in within a responsible budget,

Wayne Blanton

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.

Wayne Blanton

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

William Stewart

(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.

William Stewart

(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.

Deepak Shah

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

Harry Stonecipher

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

London School

Spending is rising and the deficit is rising, the question is will they have to raise taxes further?

Cindy Crowe

Our projected deficit for the June 30, 2007, school year is $2.3-million.

Pete Sepp

Republicans are spending at a rate not seen since Lyndon Johnson's presidency, ... They're legislating as if deficits don't matter.

Stephen Rodrick

I was a classic attention deficit disorder kid, always bored and mouthing off at school.

George Davis

I think the question on most people's minds is what are they going to do to be able to maintain the surplus and not overspend so that we move back into a deficit situation.

Julie Rousseau

I don't know what the largest deficit was, but I think that everyone got to really enjoy what I've had an opportunity to enjoy all year, and that's just how tough our women really are, how strong they are, strong in character. They showed a lot of fight and I'm very proud of them.

Joe Barton

Basically, it takes the money and spends it all. It doesn't leave anything for deficit reduction.

Matt Bennett

I don't think you would have seen a gathering like this six years ago, before 9/11, or even two or four years ago. This is a 35-year deficit Democrats have had on national security where it's been an issue to be survived, not highlighted.

Ian Shepherdson

If this is sustained we can be more hopeful the trade deficit will not rise further,

Robert MacIntosh

Japan's big problem was that fiscal stimulus was not there. They haven't coordinated monetary policy with fiscal policy. That's what we're doing differently, and that's why we won't have the same problem.

Richard Gibbs

Koizumi is being seen as more of a reformist, which plays well with the urban voting blocs, ... But regional factional support seems to be with Hashimoto, and also there's an issue with him on the fiscal reform and debt-restructuring front.

Jim Flaherty

I'm still a fiscal conservative, and I'm inclined to pay down debt.

Alan Greenspan

I find it utterly inconceivable, frankly, that we can have the type of potential fiscal outlook, which now confronts us over the next 15 to 20 years which, unless addressed, will not have a significant impact on long-term interest rates,

Jerry Taylor

I feel like that is up to the fiscal court,

Steve Brice

From a local perspective they're saving a lot of money at the moment and their fiscal surplus was 15 percent last year and is going to be 14 percent this year.

Pete Sepp

From our standpoint, this is not a top fiscal issue.

Richard Gibbs

He's gained a lot of kudos in recent months, he's a fiscal consolidator -- which is what Japan needs. I understand he has growing support within the LDP.

Chris MacMillan

I don't think it's fiscally possible to do.

Larry Walker

Reggie? Good luck. Congratulations. ... You guys win the championship down there?

Lydia Lenker

Re-election doesn't lead us. These are good issues.

Gregg Hostetler

Recognition is always good for the program. I think they have to prove it to me.

Jane King

Realtors should be all over this. It's a good product.

Joe Torre

Reggie was one of those guys who knew how good he was and let people know how good he was. Some players resented that during those times.

Stephen Hadley

Our relationships are in good shape. This is not a trip where the president has to come with a deliverable or an initiative.

Carl Pettersson

Pars are good. I had a good round going,

Mark Brunell

Patrick is a great guy and a very good player,

Doug Higgins

Patrick did a good job and we moved some guys around on defense. We started to play a little more solid.

Paul Gallay

Our relationship with communities is growing as we work with private- land owners and planning boards.

Jane Rosenthal

Our record-number of film submissions this year reflects the growing strength of the Festival. This year's program includes a wide range of talent and perspective from around the globe.

Paul Casey

Our numbers are growing in our regular program as well.

Ron Ruff

Our laws just keep growing and growing and growing.

Nancy Todd

People learn growing up to react with anger.

Mike Shanahan

Some guys (have) got more growing to go. That's part of the season. But I thought we made some strides and hopefully it pays dividends.

Aaron Oldfield

Our boy's team is very young; we only have a handful of seniors. They are going through some growing pains.

Daniel Meckstroth

Manufacturing is growing but the pace of growth has decelerated. The outlook for manufacturing production in 2006 is for moderate growth.

Beck

Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.

John Challenger

Pay raises have been paltry since 2001. Since 2001, wage growth has been muted because productivity has been so strong.

Mark Pervan

Supply growth is not there, and the players in the market aren't investing in new supply.

David Dodge

Such a slowdown in growth, in turn, raises the risk that policy-makers might resort to protectionism. In that event, a period of very slow growth could, perhaps, be punctuated by periods of outright recession.

David Hendler

Stan O'Neal has rehabilitated Merrill over the last several years, but where is the next growth area? That's what people are wondering.

Mark Batey

Out of all the major markets, it was the only one to show growth. We were up one percent.

Ken McCarthy

Right now, you could say we're at sort of a sweet spot, where we have healthy growth and reasonably high interest rates.

Bill Crawford

A relationship is like life. It isn't a process of preservation, but of change and growth. Unless you grow and change together, you will change ... and grow apart.

C. S. Lewis

Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.

C. S. Lewis

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Vijay Bakaya

Our requirement is for 35,000 tents because winter is approaching and there is an immediate need for shelters.

Ike Skelton

We need an immediate supplemental appropriation -- right now,

Phil Dow

I think if you're looking for immediate gratification, there's probably no place that's real safe to buy,

Larry Bird

I think he'll make an immediate impact because of the skills that he has.

Joseph Curran

From the discussions I've had, the immediate target is 'where are these tires and how many are involved, how many does Firestone think are involved, and what are we going to do about it,

Rand Paul

I would support immediate construction of the Keystone Pipeline.

Doug Young

Going to a pawn shop is a short-term solution to meet the immediate cash-flow crunch.

Brad Lidge

Obviously I wish I had the pitch back. That's kind of the immediate feeling.

Shawn Boggs

She will make an immediate impact with her speed.

O. Henry

Our point here is that what we don't want is for people to walk away and say, well, those are yesterday's issues and they have been or will be addressed.

Leonid Kuchma

Such talks are accompanied by unacceptable preconditions and have no positive issue for discussion,

Pradeep Maharaj

Some of the issues they raised are new but many of them have been raised before.

Sean McCormack

Our views on that issue are well-known," ()

Barry McGuigan

I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.

Bill Crawford

Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.

Cecil Taylor

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

Cecelia Ahern

What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time.

Carl Sagan

When you buy a used car, you kick the tires, you look at the odometer, you open up the hood. If you do not feel yourself an expert in automobile engines, you bring a friend who is. And you do this with something as unimportant as an automobile. But on the issues of the transcendent, of ethics, of morals, of the origins of the world, of the nature of human beings, on those issues should we not insist upon at least equally skeptical scrutiny?

Rand Paul

Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.

Luis Suarez

On the field, sometimes passion overwhelms you, and you do things you regret afterward.

Thomas Mars

There are different kinds of artists: the ones that inspire you, and the ones that overwhelm you.

Brandy Norwood

I cried, I was so overwhelmed to meet Michael Jackson.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Sometimes when we get overwhelmed we forget how big God is.

Jim Bowden

But we'll trade anybody, ... if a team overwhelms us.

Jean Houston

Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.

Keegan-Michael Key

I get overwhelmed when I approach things intellectually.

Harry S Truman

Andrew Johnson wasn't too bad, but he was overwhelmed by a hostile Congress.

Ted Arrington

It puts them in a very precarious position. They know when they take the pledge that it's not in the public's interest.

Chris Simcox

President Bush, read my lips: secure our borders.

Joe Pojman

Our president is with us on these issues. Our governor, Rick Perry, is strongly with us on these issues. But they need our help.

Parris Chang

Our president can be seen in public for the first time.

Bill Vaughan

In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can't do anything unless Congress says yes.

Bill Vaughan

In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.

Gary Chaison

I think that (AFL-CIO President John) Sweeney will have to make a strong statement about the AFL-CIO and how it's strong and still relevant.

Bob Ney

I will vote to impeach the president because he has shattered the trust of the American people.

Tom Casey

He is the established constitutional president of Mauritania.

Mary Matalin

He is to the vice president what the vice president is to the president.

Fred Siget

Some of the programs I wrote there are still running maintenance free.

Christopher Hill

Our view is that stopping their programs is simply something they have to do.

Rod Williams

We were able to put together a packet of programs and get her into a house.

David Heil

We don't know if any of it's going to be funded at all, and if so, we don't know what programs it will be spent on,

Kevin Eastler

We stay in touch pretty regularly, via e-mail or the phone. He'll send me programs and I'll tell him how I'm feeling. He'll give me paces and whenever we have the opportunity, we'll get together.

Tim Vonville

We don't want to be adversarial but we see these programs that are adversarial to the students.

Eric Cantor

We as Republicans understand that we have got to protect these... entitlement programs - these entitlement programs for our seniors today. And we have to sit down and have a discussion. We need more ideas on the table.

Robert H. Connelly

The programs were more about 'reallocating sales' than stimulating demand.

Jack Toney

The programs are coupled together by their funding.

Burton

Most of the restaurants and taverns, especially the ones downtown, support the proposal I've introduced,

Antonio Banderas

I think it actually will be an interesting play. I think it is a very smart proposal for theater.

Ken Karl

Under my proposal there?s only one wire to move.

Sergei Ivanov

If such proposals come -- we have not yet received them -- I am sure that they will not solve the ABM issue,

Wayne Peters

We're here. We're ready. We have proposals on the table that haven't been responded to.

Charles Kennedy

Why is it you remain so wedded to this proposal for 90 days? Surely it's wrong. Surely you are going to have to back down.

Tony Blair

Why is it you remain so wedded to this proposal for 90 days? ... Surely it's wrong ... surely you are going to have to back down.

Pele

When I retired, at that time I had a lot of proposals to play in Europe, England, Italy, Spain, Mexico. But I said no, after 18 years I want to rest, because I want to retire.

Tony Blair

We don't have a specific proposal on the table yet, ... But I understand and share the American concerns, as I've said many times before.

Christo

Some of the projects we've proposed over the years have been refused. But we never do other people's ideas; our ideas come out of our two hearts and our two heads.

Fred Trueman

I am here to propose a toast to sportswriters. It's up to you whether you stand up or not.

Marty McOmber

This wasn't a surprise. This is why we proposed the legislation.

Stephen Byers

The proposed merger...might result in a substantial lessening of competition,

Howard Miller

I think what he's proposed is accommodating It's gorgeous.

Tom Latham

I think that person who actually proposes things, who will save Medicare, will be in a lot stronger position than someone who demagogues the issue.

Abbas Zaidi

We have proposed Karachi as a Test and a one-day venue.

Eric Hausler

What's proposed in New York is not competitive.

Harold Wilson

What he proposes is, in my view ... unacceptable.

Dick DeGuerin

It is important to us to get this over with as quickly as possible.

Katie Brown

He cantered quickly and was just very quick.

Mike Shanahan

We try to get everything done as quickly as possible. We have to be ready for March.

John Steinbeck

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Michelle Davis

She's very contemplative and thinks through situations thoroughly, but can think ... very quickly as well.

Sunil Mittal

You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.

Rashida Jones

I thought they were trying to put it out. I couldn't tell you how quickly it happened. I was so traumatized that this whole thing had happened.

Mark Rosenker

We're trying to do this as quickly as possible, as safely as possible.

John Lyboldt

You can go to all the manufacturers very quickly and save yourself a lot of time.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

Charles Nelson

Overall, the story is that uninsured rates are relatively stable.

Juergen Michels

That will probably keep the ECB waiting until September, rather than going for a rate rise, as a done deal, every quarter.

Roni Java

That's a very respectable rate for a rural county. We know they're trying to reach 50.

Jill Dougherty

I think one of the misconceptions is that it is fatal. If it's detected early, the five-year survival rate is 95%.

Judy Garland

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else

Astro Teller

Going from an error rate of 25 meters in GPS to 2.5 meters is huge. Going to 25 centimeters is going to matter just as much.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Mark Langan

This rates up there as one of the worse we have ever seen.

Tomoko Fujii

He hasn't done any reforms yet, so they would like to see the results.

Enrique Pena Nieto

There have been no voices against the structural reforms that I have proposed, especially the energy reform.

Katie Murphy

That was our plan, to just get her tired out, and slow her down by the end of the game.

Ricky Henderson

I think it was just a slow start. It was pretty disappointing. We've got a lot of things to work on, but I think we'll do better. We'll be all right.

Mike Hill

I think it went really well. The word is slowly spreading. We're starting to get more people.

Stacy Stewart

The only thing that could slow this down is itself.

Nicole Strasko

I got off to a slow start thinking about the game. I'm a freshman, and this was my first tournament game, and with it in the new gym, I wanted to do really good.

Christopher Traulsen

If it's a trend, it's going to be slow moving.

Frank Middleton

He taught me a lesson, ... Never slow down.

Flip Saunders

We were a half-second slow and they were throwing it up there.

Dave Wannstedt

We've got to find a way out of it, ... We started slow and that's where we are right now.

Al Gore

The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

Bill Shaw

We threatened them for a while. But they would come back, sometimes on their own account, sometimes on our account.

Gao Zhisheng

I've been threatened before. But this time they wanted to kill me.

Hillary Clinton

I'm going to stand up for what [Donald Trump] says and does that is threatening to Americans, to the lives of Americans, the rights of Americans.

J. K. Rowling

We let off a Dungbomb in the corridor and it upset him for some reason—" "So he hauled us off to his office and started threatening us with the usual—" "—detention—" "—disembowelment—

Rob Bell

If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?

Bethany Mota

I’m not too into the trends - I like to look at trends as suggestions, not as rules.

will.i.am

I don't follow waves or trends or emotions.

Alexander McQueen

As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.

Dylan Moran

The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms.

Andrei Platonov

I have a trend of my own.

Anna Deavere Smith

Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.

Jane Krakowski

I've never been so on trend in my entire life.

Daymond John

When looking at trends I always ask myself basic and timeless questions about business, and the one I seem to always come back to is, 'How is this different than anything else in the marketplace?'

David Douglass

On the whole, the evidence indicates that model trends in the troposphere are very likely inconsistent with observations...