Budgets Quotations

Giving Northern Europe a veto over Southern Europe's budgets will not hold a monetary union together. The euro zone will continue to need the weaker countries to stomach decades of high unemployment to grind down wages.

Nonetheless, the research budgets of the Department of Defense are under enormous stress-and they are extremely important because they support more than 40 percent of all federal funding for engineering schools across the country. So the threat was and is real.

I've actually cut my personal pay individually; we didn't vote on that, but I've done that individually. It's important that folks know that we're going to roll up our sleeves and work on things, and members of Congress are going to sacrifice our own budgets first.

What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit.

The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.

Most of the time, you find that the smaller the budget, the more the project is about something substantive.

That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.

Berlin has traditionally backed a rules-based eurozone in which every member state is responsible for its own finances, including bank bailouts, with political union limited to a fiscal overlord's possessing veto power over national budgets that violate the rules.

The funds from the sale were put into research and general teaching budgets at the university. Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates, Inc., is now a growing enterprise with many model and other econometric facilities.

In these difficult financial times for so many of our districts, as our local leaders strive to balance their budgets by cutting services, we would be irresponsible not to invest in the arts.

There are so many screenwriters with incredible stories to tell, so I hope there will be some kind of shift in the business where very few types of movies are now made by the studios. There needs to be different budgets for different audiences; not everything having to be a huge opening weekend.

How many people out there really set a budget?

I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.

Being a defense hawk and a budget hawk are not mutually exclusive.

When completed, the budget must provide the services we have promised to our constituents.

In Sub-Saharan Africa, where agriculture represents two-thirds of all employment, governments are proving that resource commitments yield success. In 2004, African heads of state pledged 10 percent of their national budgets to achieve 6 percent annual growth in agriculture. By 2008, 20 African countries had met or exceeded that 6 percent target.

And as you point out, for American families who struggle every day to figure out how do they pay, we talk about gasoline prices. That throws budgets into a real problem when you have budgeted really tight.

All the states are required, either by constitution or by statute, to have balanced budgets - they're not able to print money. So they have to focus on establishing priorities.

Mint is designed to put your finances on auto-pilot. Whether you log in or not, it will send you a weekly summary of your balances and biggest purchases, and how your investments and budgets are doing, along with sending you alerts on unusual spending and low balances.

Throughout the 40 years I've been in Washington, I've always worked hard, particularly with regards to the budget issues.

Whenever education budgets get tightened, art programs are the first to get cut. Like the enduring popularity of reality TV, this never ceases to amaze me.

The majority of the time, we try to hire the best people that we can get just to make the best films, and I think that's something that Pure Flix has been known for the movies we produce on the budgets that we do... our production values have elevated this genre.

But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want.

The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor.

Most of my comedies were low on budgets - certainly by American standards.

Businesses should absolutely set aside funding in their budgets for security consultants. Unless there is an expert on staff, and there usually is not, it needs to be outsourced.

Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.

Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.

Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.

I'm always attracted to lower budget, not because it's lower budget, but because they tend to be better scripts.

For too long, unfunded federal mandates have drained the budgets of states and communities. The strength and vitality of our communities must be restored.

The persistent and growing high level of child poverty reflects conscious and misguided choices, ... How can the Bush Administration and Congress give enormous tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans who have benefited most from the economic recovery while threatening to cut the budgets for Medicaid, Food Stamps and other programs that assist poor children who continue to be left behind?

(We're) in such a tight budget - like we have had every year, ... (If) you can increase reserves at all, it's a feather in your cap.

We're in a very different world now. We demand accountability for spending. ... We should look and demand accountability for every one of these tax breaks of which there are many in this budget.

When you think about it, these budgets were formulated a year in a half ago and we're living with them almost 18 months later.

When I was in sixth grade, they slashed the budgets for all of our school art programs, so my grandparents enrolled me in art classes at Worcester Art Museum, which I attended from sixth to 12th grade.

We're going to see the cost of everything go up, just to get basic supplies here, shipping costs will go up, ... We'll have to deal with that as we go, we just have so much money to spend, it's always a challenge. ... Budgets are just a projection and it's so volatile, it's just hard to plan. If things rise in one area, we'll just have to make up with it in another.

We felt like it was our obligation and privilege if they'd like to share the work and proceeds from this year's event. It helps both our budgets and is our responsibility as a chamber to work with our non-profits in Allen, especially when there's a need like this.

What makes it a problem, regardless of why, is that smaller companies are the ones who have fewer defenses in place. There are no large dedicated IT staffs in place, or large budgets for technology, so it's a double whammy.

We're still a number of days away from going through the budget process.

We're seeing a firming of IT budgets throughout the United States, ... We are seeing budgets get set.

This will mean a significant decrease of monies in the budget.

This was not a high-budget enterprise that I could see. Other people come to Hope to shoot commercials and such, and they throw money around right and left.

We have creative freedom because of budgets. Ever since I have been doing low budget movies, we've really had creative freedom.

What we're doing with this vote is saying that we've put together a terrific budget and challenged the status quo. We're actually doing the same with less and adding on to that with rebuilding.

There are some pretty rotten things going on in our prisons. We've seen prisoners sleeping in vans, a big increase in smuggling contraband into prisons, we've heard the suggestion that criminals should be prison guards, seen budgets blown and prisoners accessing violent movies.

We're at 83 percent of our budget. I'm sure we'll run over.

We have real needs that we have to meet for rebuilding in the Gulf Coast, and with our tight budgets, this is almost a zero-sum game. And now we're taking about moving a railroad that's been rebuilt already? That doesn't make sense.

The real issue is executing those plans over a dynamic period of time. Most of these systems, you don't implement in a week, you don't implement in a year. They're multiyear implementations in a political environment where laws are being changed, in a budgetary environment where budgets are being changed.

The people of New Jersey do have a history of supporting public education. So despite the problems with state budgets and property taxes, I do think we will see a majority of budgets approved by voters.

We have a number of major budget productions that either have looked seriously at or are in the process of considering the state for 2006. So it's about 180 degrees from what we were at this time a year ago.

We're here to see if budgets add up. After Hurricane Katrina, construction costs have gone up.

There are things in the Department of Education's budget and the federal government's general (budget) that the president has called for either trimming or eliminating, (and) those things I'm sure will be on the table as we negotiate with

We had a very serious budget problem before Katrina hit.

We won't find construction materials cheaper than they are now. These are huge budget numbers, but not when you consider 42,000 students, 5,000 employees and 48 schools. We might be a midsize district in Florida, but we crack the top 100 of school districts in America.

When the state cut library budgets a while back, I began to study fundraising techniques. The only two we haven't tried here are pay toilets and slot machines.

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

Manhattan Associates was ahead of the curve in being able to show us how its RFID solutions would meet our needs. With the help of Manhattan Associates' project team, the implementation was smooth and came in under budget. Shire is poised and ready to meet upcoming retail requirements.

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.

Many corporations upgraded their PCs in preparation for Y2K, which boosted demand last year, ... If you figure on a three-year upgrade cycle, companies will not feel a need to upgrade in 2001. Corporate IT budgets are focused more on adapting to the Internet, which includes networking hardware, storage, and e-commerce software.

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

Securing farmers' and ranchers' viability is always a top priority for the USDA. We'd need to find budget offsets.

Shes energetic, bright, and experienced. She really has a handle on what it takes to be a top notch administrator, and I am positive she will do great things at both Blackbird and Shay. And besides, ... she has four young children that will go through this district, and that means four more heads we get to count in our budget.

Sixty percent of our general budget goes to education. It would be ironic if electronic commerce erodes the science and math education that the visionary leaders of tomorrow need to keep this industry going.

Since most of these announcements aren't funded in any of the three budgets the Liberals tabled this year, why should anyone believe these promises,

Medicare is growing at a rate of 8.5 percent per year, the federal budget at 5.2 percent and the gross domestic product at only 4.8 percent,

Net revenues for the year are up on earlier budget predictions by more than 2 million.

No doubt Cosworth will build a brilliant V8 as it's their forte, ... But, sadly, bigger budgets will dominate.

One of the things that we'll see is that school budgets are going to be severely impacted by gas prices. We'll just have to bring it to them.

No one should kid themselves. This is not a budget that is going to have a significant impact on the fiscal policy of this country.

(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 and more people are spending money on marketing. Companies are going to need to increase their marketing budgets as we move into this increasing complex economy. That's great news for these media companies -- whether it's Viacom or what we'll see this afternoon with Disney.

More of our budget will have to shift to the welfare families. What Congress is doing is going to make it even harder for low-income working parents.

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

My hands were tied in terms of going to Ireland for half the shoot because of budget considerations by the producers.

Now that economic conditions have improved, many companies have the budgets to initiate new IT projects and require additional staff to support these efforts. Competition is rising for professionals skilled in the hottest applications and specialties, and multiple offers are increasingly common.

Obviously, in an ideal world, we would give as much money as we could to as many students as we could. But this is just not possible to do with the budget we are given.

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.

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.

New Yorkers have a clear choice: A candidate for governor who hopes he can do a good job protecting the environment, or one who has actually done it. Bill Weld has a proven record of protecting our air and water and preserving open space, and he did it while cutting taxes, balancing budgets and turning an entire economy around for businesses and families.

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

If they want to make general managers powerless to set a budget and decide what they want to do, and just have a budget set in New York that is supposed to apply to Toronto, Nashville etc., that's not going to fly with the players, ... I know that's not a recipe for a solution.

If we (council) are going to take the responsibility to control the budget then we also must take the responsibility to have as many meetings as it takes to pass the proper legislation. It is an issue of council that we want better control over what is spent.

If we continue at a spending level like in this budget, we are headed downhill, ... This is not a budget I feel good about approving.

I don't have a good feeling what our budget is going to look like next year. Nothing should be construed tonight I'm against lacrosse. We have to be realistic.

I don't know what Katrina is going to do to budget reconciliation overall, ... There's simply no way that we can carry out the agenda that we had in place at the end of July, that we thought we would be dealing with today, just because of Katrina.

Budgets are not necessarily just about cutting back or saving money but just monitoring your money is important. This shouldn't stop him going out or buying clothes, say, but if Justin can put by a set amount each month to spend on these luxuries, he will be much less likely to overspend.

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

I have a very low advertising budget. We have been the featured new product in three different magazines. After an article ran in Farm Show magazine, we received calls from all around the world and sold about 10 to 15 products from one free article. That's cheap advertising!

Frankly, the September decline was somewhat surprising, considering that the last four months of the year historically have been the heaviest, as employers finalize budgets and business plans for the coming year,

From a budgetary standpoint, we?re nowhere close to the Tour de Georgia or Tour of California. They have budgets around $3 to $4 million. Ours is under $100,000. The difference there is pretty striking. Even though our course and level of road racing in the event mimics those of the larger events, in terms of the prize money we can offer and the caliber of athlete we hope to get to come, we really can?t compete until we have a larger budget. That?s the hard and fast reality. We?d like to get to that budget, but we?re not there yet.

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.

If approved by the legislature, this budget will set in stone Governor Bush's environmental legacy.

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

If it is only short-term money I think the budget can handle that.

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,

He was very effective as chairman of the budget committee, ... When you lose a commissioner that's got 11 years of service, you lose that expertise.

He hopes that the students stay engaged throughout this process and that they participate on campus as college presidents make the same kinds of tough decisions that the governor did with this budget.