Stanley Collender Quotations

Lyndon Johnson in his prime would have trouble getting it through.

If the budget is balanced in 2002, it will be as much by luck as by design.

Katrina could easily become a milestone in the history of the federal budget. Policies that never would have been considered before could now become standard.

You have a president with low approval ratings, and a Congress that's more worried about their re-election than his legacy.

This budget is not going to happen. Of all the budgets I've seen recently, this is the one going nowhere the fastest.

They were fine when they were projecting through 2010, but once you get beyond that, which is where they are now, the out years are terrible.

Even without ANWR, it will be difficult to pass. You've got spending cuts that a lot of people can't stomach.

The economy will block spending cuts in low-income heating assistance and Medicaid and programs like those. But it will also make it harder to innovate.