Quotes About Budget

In America ... who is to stop congress from spending too much money. They will not stop themselves, that is certain. Everybody has to think about that now. Who is to stop them.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.

It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.

Even on a $100 million film, people will complain that they haven't got enough money and enough time, so that's always going to be an element in filmmaking.

It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.

If you have $300,000 to shoot a cigarette on a table, it's an enormous amount of money. Maybe that's why my movies are the way they are. But it's the only way I can make a living.

Open source isn't about saving money, it's about doing more stuff, and getting incremental innovation with the finite budget you have.

We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

When you create a basic budget and stick to it, it will suddenly seem like you have more money.

The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.

In the state of Michigan, where I served in the state Legislature, there was a lot of shuffling of money between one year and the other to balance the budget.

Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget.

It's curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you're saving money.

It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.

There's no way you can shoot low-budget stuff on lots of locations. It's just a practicality thing because every time you move, it costs time and money.

The only reason you don't go on holiday, is 'cause you have to spend money.

We got plenty of money in Washington. What we need is more priority.

I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.

We've had a Congress that's spent money like John Edwards at a beauty shop.

To be honest, you have to do a big Hollywood film to get enough money to do a good independent film!

We're throwing money down a rat hole drain of public education! We lead the world in public education spending. We lead the world in getting the least for it.

I have a serious investment problem. I have no money.