Quotes About Budget

There is always money for war. You never hear political leaders say they can't go to war because the country can't afford it. They claim not to have money for the poor, homeless and hungry, but war? It's never a problem.

The United States spends enough on 'defense' to provide every homeless American with a one-million-dollar home.

The Word of God has a supernatural edge with which a million-dollar budget can never compete.

If it is unnecessary to adjust the amount of expenditure to the means available, there is no limit to the spending of the great god State.

Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much.

Thank God for small movies and filmmakers who can make movies for not $8 million. Thank God for $8, 000 movies.

The good news is, we're not bankrupt. The bad news is, we're close.

The further you go on the show, the larger the budget gets. But in the beginning they were just like, "Here's a hundred bucks in L.A. Good luck."

It's good news that he is proposing to restore budget cuts that he made, but the reality is that he is still proposing a 4.5 percent increase in tuition that's above inflation.

If you're going to make a movie for ten thousand you can talk everybody into doing it for free. You could make a really good-looking movie right for ten grand, if you have an idea.

To find a good story, you're generally going to find it in independent or lower budget movies... I wouldn't mind doing a big budget movie if it had a great story.

Most of the federal government could be shut down.

There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.

Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.

The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.

Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more.

I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it.

The revenue of the country, levied almost insensibly to the taxpayer, goes on from year to year, increasing beyond either the interests or the prospective wants of the Government.

Government expands to absorb revenue - and then some.

President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government.

For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford.

The message from the United States and Europe is that governments must live within their means.

Every line in the government's budget has its own constituency.

No matter what happens in the future, whether it is a Labor government or a Coalition government, whoever is in government is going to have to fix the budget.