Budget Quotes

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty. (William Cobbett)
If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children. View quote
Coretta Scott King
Balancing the budget is like protecting your virtue, you have to learn how to say no. View quote
Ronald Reagan
It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget. View quote
Daniel Suarez
I was embarrassed when a businessman friend asked, 'What's the yearly budget of your talk show? What's the per-episode budget?' And I looked at him with these blank, typical-model eyes and said, 'I don't know.' I call myself a businesswoman and I don't know that? So that is my goal next year--to really dissect the budget. View quote
Tyra Banks
You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget. View quote
Tom DeLay
At present the national budget plays a very large role in the whole financial policy of our country. View quote
Ragnar Frisch
Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee. View quote
James Cameron (director)
The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting. View quote
David Cronenberg
We got a real clear picture of what they all value. Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let the - he said in the first hundred days he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules, 'unchain Wall Street.' (Joe Biden)
A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it. View quote
William Feather
The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Nigeria, with the oil sector, had the reputation of being corrupt and not managing its own public finances well. So what did we try to do? We introduced a fiscal rule that de-linked our budget from the oil price. View quote
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
My style is about making things last forever. When you're on a budget, it can be daunting to spend $300 on a pair of boots or a coat. But such basics are the building blocks from which your look is crafted. View quote
Nina Garcia
Most of the time, you find that the smaller the budget, the more the project is about something substantive. View quote
Robert Carlyle
You can have a million dollar, 20 million dollar budget or 60 million dollar budget, and if you don't have a good script, it doesn't mean a thing. View quote
Tippi Hedren
If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would cancel all new trials, for just one year, and I would spend the money exclusively on making sure that we make the best possible use of the clinical evidence that we already have. View quote
Ben Goldacre
Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief. View quote
William Vickrey
The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about it, is a form of taxation without representation. We fought a war over that issue and we won that war. View quote
Mike Lee (U.S. politician)
Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment. (Ann Macbeth)
The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first. View quote
Bob Riley
The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable. View quote
Chaka Fattah
I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books. View quote
Matthew Vaughn
Getting older, I realize I've had a very fortunate life. I've had a budget that's allowed me to do just about any silly little thing the mind could conjure up, and I'm still alive and here. View quote
Rick Danko