Budget Quotes - page 17

I haven't met one parent or one teacher in Missouri who thinks we should balance the budget by taking money from kids' classrooms. (Jay Nixon)
The budget acknowledges the importance of maintaining our ports and waterways to encourage commercial deep-draft navigation and economic competitiveness. View quote
Jeff Landry
Reconciliation is a special budget procedure to change entitlement and tax laws. It cannot be filibustered and requires only a simple majority in the Senate to be passed. It is primarily intended for deficit and mandatory spending reduction. View quote
Jeff Miller
Becoming food savvy is one thing, but it's amazing how fast savvy turns to snooty, and snooty leaves you preparing three-hour meals that break your budget and that the kids won't even eat. View quote
Jeffrey Kluger
I've, we have in this state, like many other states, we're experiencing an enormous budget deficit that we're trying to grapple with. But we will have progress despite the deficits. View quote
Jennifer Granholm
In Congress, while the House's proposed defense budget calls for significant increases, it also cuts 11 billion dollars from veterans spending - including healthcare and disability pay. Be clear: we can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. View quote
Jennifer Granholm
As an actor on sets, I've always clocked how hard the crew works, how much longer their days are, how much lesser their glory is - and the fact that their commitment to the work and project is unwavering, no matter the budget. View quote
Jennifer Westfeldt
Budget cuts are a sad reality in most newsrooms, and I am concerned that they reduce the collective muscle of journalists who are doing the expensive, and often dangerous, work of on-the-ground reporting. View quote
Jill Abramson
Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action. View quote
Jim Cooper
The President's budget pays for only six months of the war in Iraq and completely overlooks the transition costs of Social Security reform. The Administration always lied about the cost of the Medicare drug bill. View quote
Jim Cooper
President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government. (Jim Cooper)
I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government. View quote
Jim Doyle
The budget is tight, and that is exactly where we want it to be and where we need it to be. View quote
Jim Nussle
As I said a moment ago, there is no higher priority in our budget, or certainly in the budgets of the past few years, than providing for what is needed for the protection and security of our country and support of our troops. View quote
Jim Ryun
We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army. View quote
Jim Talent
I have gone to Albany constantly in my capacity as budget director, because I don't think the way the transit authority works with the City of New York is very appropriate. View quote
Joe Lhota
The biggest difference for me is momentum. On a smaller film you get to shoot sometimes four or five scenes a day and you've got to do the tight schedule. I think I really feel the luxuries of a big budget film. View quote
Joel Edgerton
When people see the budget, they're going to say, 'Oh, my God, I wanted a tax cut, but I didn't know what you were going to do to health care and to Medicare and national defense.' View quote
John Breaux
Having a Congress with a more diverse educational and professional background would serve the country well. And given the budget challenges facing America today, we might benefit from a few more cold, calculating problem solvers, and fewer courtroom impresarios. View quote
John H. Sununu
The nominee is Mitt Romney. Paul Ryan joins Mitt Romney. The budget plan, the approach on Medicare and all of that is going to be the Romney plan. What he has is a man as his number two who understands the details of budgets, who has demonstrated a willingness to take on tough issues. View quote
John H. Sununu
When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk. (John Hughes)
States, virtually all of them, have a constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget. View quote
John Kitzhaber
Did you know that the state is the proud owner of a condo complex in Conway? This budget adds a real estate manager position to assess what we own, and sell those properties that we don't need and shouldn't own. View quote
John Lynch
The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations. View quote
Jacob Lew
We cannot win the future, expand the economy and spur job creation if we are saddled with increasingly growing deficits. That is why the president's budget is a comprehensive and responsible plan that will put us on a path toward fiscal sustainability in the next few years - a down payment toward tackling our challenges in the long term. View quote
Jacob Lew