Quotes About Budget

Once we get three more directors elected, the Sierra Club will no longer be pro-hunting and pro-trapping and we can use the resources of the $95-million-a-year budget to address some of these issues.

The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.

I asked the well-known conservative thinker and publisher Alfred S. Regnery, who had just given a book talk on the importance of limiting the size of government, what he made of the fact that three-quarters of employees doing the work of the federal government are now contractors and that the federal budget for services increases by the day. He was taken aback. It was immediately apparent that the subject was not on his radar.

The county had reduced high-school transportation, eliminated all middle school sports, and was seeking $77 million more from the state for the year's English Language Learners instruction.

If you can't fit everything in within the time and budget allotted then don't expand the time and budget. Instead, pull back the scope. There's always time to add stuff later – later is eternal, now is fleeting.

Movies are an expensive business.

Fargo was a vicious little crime drama shot on a shoestring budget. Ethan's college friend, William Robertson, begged the brothers not to make it: You've just had a huge flop, now you want to make a crime drama set in North Dakota? Nobody will watch it,

I don't always buy organic food. It is more expensive.

Now make no mistake, I think we need a strong dose of fiscal conservatism in Washington, D.C.

As our leaders in Washington confront tough decisions about our budget priorities, I urge them to continue federal funding for public broadcasting.

It is my belief there is too much concentration of power and spending in Washington.

You have to starve the Beast. That's one of the most important things about tax cuts. If you leave the money in Washington, it's going to be spent.

Washington is too expensive.

Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.

Every bit of money that we can bring from our federal transportation budget in Washington back here to Stewart Airport will benefit our local economy and our local residents.

The reality is that during the Reagan years, for instance, we doubled the amount of revenue that we were sending to Washington, D.C. after the tax cuts took effect.

When I left Washington, we actually had a balanced budget and we paid down the most amount of the national debt in modern history and cut taxes and created jobs. And I was the chief architect of that plan in '97.

I would be embarrassed to tell you how many folks ran saying that they weren't going to spend a bunch of money, they weren't going to raise the debt ceiling, and then they went to Washington, D.C., and did exactly that.

In Washington, I will never vote to raise taxes, I will fight to repeal healthcare reform, and I will work to balance the budget.

Throughout the 40 years I've been in Washington, I've always worked hard, particularly with regards to the budget issues.

As American families and businesses have been forced to tighten their belts, Washington has refused to do the same.

Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government.

I was upset about getting $40 haircuts, like, every month. That's a lot of money, and so, man, that's a lot of food. That's a waste. No more. So I'm, like, letting it go so I have more food. My budget's good for food now.

We must go through every area of the federal budget to isolate waste and abandoned projects.