Budgeting Quotes (1035 Quotes)

It's a conservative budget. We always overestimate our expenditures and underestimate our revenues, so we should be in pretty good shape by the end of the year.

The Republicans, with Cheney's leadership, have gotten us in a mess in Iraq and in a mess with the budget deficit. The administration's backing of Ralph Norman does not hurt John Spratt.

However, this President sees no problem eliminating funding for Perkins Loans in his budget, even though the cost of tuition is rising and will continue to rise as the administration's policies force inflation.

I have talked to Berlusconi repeatedly about the budget and the Bank of Italy since August, but to no avail,

I was informed in early January that they had eliminated my job. Financially, times are very tight (at the station). We've made some big investments in the Broncos, Oprah Winfrey and the Web site. The way it was explained to me was that the station budget would no longer support a morning sports guy.

Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually no marketing budget. It's just word of mouth. And our circulation continues to grow that way by breaking news stories.

It's difficult enough to really react to all the data typically included in defense budget. To not even have access to the basic top line over view before you have the opportunity to question the secretary seems problematic. It doesn't have the out years beyond 2007 usually, in fact in all previous blue tops, it had those numbers.

Now is not the time to play politics, ... Now is the time to do what's right by the American people by developing a budget that puts working families first and that truly allows us to rebuild our economy and make America safe once again.

This budget may be the first sign that we're about to get a prime minister who acts on climate change instead of just talking about it. Many of these measures will make the difference if properly implemented.

They hadn't even gotten their first paychecks yet, ... My biggest thing was giving them a sense of reality and what costs would be. We outlined costs and a budget, and by the time we finished they said they could take maybe one vacation a year. They started to understand reality versus their dreams.

He's making noise about the budget because it's big, ... If you equate the words 'big' and 'wasteful,' then he's right. But big doesn't mean wasteful, necessarily. The questions I would ask is, Do you have enough money coming in to meet the needs of the budget you're drawing up The answer to that is, Clearly yes, we do. As long as we can meet legitimate needs, keep soundly in the black, and not raise taxes, that's what we need to do.

This is not about new money, ... This is about a budget which keeps NASA ... approximately where it is today.

The budget was approved in the state you presented it, meaning that it would be able to sustain its operations. So there will be no excuse for not delivering.

However ... Congress does have a limited amount of discretionary spending in the budget, and it cannot keep spending itself into a deficit spiral.

At what point do you have more administrator positions than necessary and not enough officers and firefighters on the streets, ... Council members are elected to have influence in the budget process.

These payments certainly put a crimp on having a balanced budget. We're paying these fees instead of expending resources for benefits such as economic development or enhanced law enforcement. This is preventative medicine, something we necessarily have to do to protect the long-term interests of taxpayers.

There is no fat left to cut in the federal budget.

We have informational meetings so that they can ask questions to make sure their stuff is turned in correctly the first time. I go through with every organization generally one on one that night. They then have to have one representative at the budget meeting.

I'm very disappointed. I fought very hard to make sure funding stayed in the budget.

It's hard for me to imagine the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff sending that letter without at least consulting with the secretary of defense, ... It's well known that the secretary of defense wasn't enthusiastic about this loss of budget authority. Remember, most of our fiercest debates in Washington come down to who controls the money.

I was able to lean on people for favors and things to help out because their budget was so low. It was half of what John Travolta's perk package is on a film. Our whole budget was half of what his staff makes on a film.

Things have gone quite well. We're on time and on budget. In fact, we're a little bit ahead of the time schedule, because we've had such great weather.

I don't think it's ever the time to balance the budget by raising taxes on the most productive Americans.

The roof is blowing off this budget. We're spending money like it's going out of style. Let's put on the brakes and get this budget back under fiscal control.

Our major expenditures are behind us and we are ahead of schedule and under budget.

This year was definitely more open than the bad old days, but the door was only open a crack. In the old days, I felt like I was outside of the Vatican waiting for the white smoke instead of waiting for the budget.

When Gale Norton agreed to the trust reform work group we bought into it that's where they defined trust. The only thing Interior wanted in trust was the responsibility for land, and if you watch the budget that is what they are doing.

Budget discipline is not a conservative system.

We put forward a budget each year with what we think are correct numbers for homeland security, and we'll continue to do that. The facts are the facts. This is a president who is leading the war on terror to not only make our nation safer, but the world safer.

It's a budget that sets priorities. It's a budget that will help us sustain economic growth and uphold pro-development policies.

He's already done some things that's been a benefit to the county, like making a few changes in the budget so that maybe we can avoid a big tax increase. He and Justin are working on rewriting the land development code, which needed a lot of work done to it, but he's on top of the job and I think he's going to be a real asset to the county.

This budget hearing is going to be more raucous than it has in the past. The Council is emboldened by a lot of what has transpired in the last year and they're going to demand to be more equal partners in the budget process,

There are ways out there to shuffle the budget in order to give these folks what they need in order to stay.

I submit to you this is a pro-business budget.

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.

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

FEMA has become a symbol of a bumbling bureaucracy in which the American people have completely lost faith. There are many good people who work at FEMA. But they have lacked the leaders, the tools, the systems, and the budget to be effective.

There was a national evaluation that showed it just wasn't producing the results we wanted. Also, it didn't leave flexibility. During a time of budget tightness we discontinued it.

Compared to other fiscal and budgetary years, at the start of the budget process, we have been at 22, 20, and 18 percent so we are below where we have been in the past couple of years.

Gov. Rell feels Len Boyle is doing a superb job as commissioner. The governor understands and shares many of the budget frustrations - but at her initiative, the state police will finally have a full complement of 1,248 troopers in 2006.

By submitting a budget proposal with cuts of this magnitude, the Administration is completely ignoring the will of the American people as they expressed it quite vocally last June. In now renewing the attack on public broadcasting, the Administration is saying the opinions of the American people do not matter.

How can we ignore the fact that virtually all forecasts of the budget balance have been wide of the mark in recent years.

He's an elected member of the Iraqi government and he has a portfolio that includes economic policy, essential services, infrastructure, the budget and he will be meeting with his counterparts on those areas and the bilateral issues.

D.A.T.A. stands for desires, abilities, temperament and assets. . . . desires may include solving problems, performing intellectually challenging work in an independent setting and making things run well . . . abilities are the transferable skills. . . . to solve people's problems. These may include writing, budgeting and using different software programs . . . temperament may refer to what situations make you most productive and satisfied . . . assets are the life experiences, education and training that set one apart from everyone else.

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.

Well, I think the president has clearly submitted us a tight budget, but it's what's called for if we're going to get spending under control and keep the economy moving in the right direction, with economic growth and job creation activity.

The expansion of the mall will bring about 500 new jobs and the expansion of the mall will allow businesses to strive, Many of the new stores are geared toward college-age students, several of which can be afforded on a students budget.

There needs to be recognition by the administration that his budget is not going to get through the Senate because his priorities are not the priorities of the country.

In order to get the best bang for your buck, you need to stay on the budget.

Our mayor, who was very busy last year learning how to be a mayor, this year actually took a wonderful leadership role, got into the budget with both feet.