Quotes About Budgets

The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.

State and federal budgets, to which Asians, Hispanics, and African Americans contribute, are uniformly controlled by whites who seem to uniformly believe that the only ancestor worship worth funding is theirs.

In the charitable world as in the business world, opportunities should drive budgets, not the other way around.

The perception that 'Indians can't make superhero films' needs to change. We can make superhero films in the budgets given to us.

You know, the people who do indie film and decide who gets those little budgets? They're mean, man. They're cold and very cool-oriented.

For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money at stake, you have so many people breathing down your neck.

We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.

You read a lot about movies with budgets of $25 to 30 million. Hell, if a studio can piss away that kind of money, why not let 'em piss on me?

I think the politics have gotten better in the United States, which makes it easier to pass legislation, budgets and treaties.

Personal residences and privately held businesses constitute important nonfinancial assets on many personal balance sheets. Homeownership insulates individuals from changes in the cost of renting a place to live. Since inflation-sensitive habitation costs constitute a significant portion of most household budgets, homeownership reduces the need for inflation-hedging assets in investor portfolios.

Governments have budgets but no money, companies have money but no budgets.

In my home state of Indiana we prove every day that you can build a growing economy on balanced budgets, low taxes.

I like to see films that come out with lower budgets because you're forced into using your imagination. You don't have everything at your fingertips. You have to create it from scratch.

The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

I'm coming to Washington, D.C., to do the people's work. And the people's work has to do with reducing spending and cutting budgets and, and trying to get a grip on the size of government.

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

Without a doubt, first thing we should do is clean up our fiscal house, and that starts with balancing our budgets and digging out of this red ink. We cannot expect to continue in this fashion and remain the leader of the free world.

I was not going to balance the budgets on the backs of communities.

Hollywood and Bollywood films cannot be compared because of their budgets!

I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.

Like most aspects of mental accounting, setting up non-fungible budgets is not entirely silly. Be it with mason jars, envelopes, or sophisticated financial apps, a household that makes a serious effort to create a financial plan will have an easier time living within its means. The same goes for businesses, large or small. But sometimes those budgets can lead to bad decision-making, such as deciding that the Great Recession is a good time to upgrade the kind of gasoline you put in your car.

In a culture like ours, still preoccupied with security issues, enormously high military budgets are never seriously questioned by Congress or by the people, while appropriations reflecting later stages in the hierarchy of needs, like those for education, health care for the poor, and the arts, are quickly cut, if even considered. The message is clear that we are largely an adolescent culture.

What kind of people are we? What are our shared values? Many congressional Republicans think it's fine to give billions of dollars in tax breaks to giant oil companies and corporations that park their money overseas, even as medical research budgets are hit by another round of cuts and care centers have long waiting lists. But those spending choices don't reflect the values of the American people.

The bottom line is that weather events not only threaten private property and family budgets, but they also can decimate public resources and government coffers.