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Quotes About Budget

It takes a gross of at least ten thousand a month to get by.
~ Rex Stout
Reagan kept saying the deficit was Public Enemy Number One. But then he sent up a budget that would have pumped red ink up over the window sills.
~ Richard Ben Cramer
Her budget is blessedly free of those two core expenses, entertainment and status.
~ Richard Powers
The postdoc turns into an adjunct position. She makes almost nothing, but life requires little. Her budget is blessedly free of those two core expenses, entertainment and status.
~ Richard Powers
By 1933, with a departmental budget above $2,000 a year, ten times the budget of most Italian physics departments
~ Richard Rhodes
Florida is California on a Troma budget. That's what the demon lover thinks, anyway. Special effects blew the budget on bugs and bad weather.
~ Kelly Link
a budget was like a newspaper gossip column: most of it could be fiction, because no one ever knew the truth.
~ Ken Follett
Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
The first thing we have to do is get spending under control in Washington. It's completely out of control. We Republicans came to power to change government, and government changed us.
~ John McCain
The more complicated the movie, the more complex the budget, the more lonely it gets. There's a point where ... who do you go to, other than prayer and friends?
~ Michael Bolton
To fix crime we have to fix the family, but before we do that we have to fix welfare, and that means fixing our budget, and that means fixing our civic spirit, but we can't do that without fixing moral standards, and that means fixing schools and churches, and that means fixing the inner cities, and that's impossible unless we fix crime.
~ William Strauss
We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
~ Winston Churchill
Unfortunately, the hyperbole of the inaugural outran the provisions of the budget.
~ Dean Acheson
You contribute much to your marriage by the wise, thrifty, diligent management and oversight of your part of the household budget.
~ Elizabeth George
There were a million things we needed to figure out—and the congressman thought the most important thing we needed to do was slice up the operating budget so each political party was assured its "fair share"? Welcome to Washington. Once
~ Elizabeth Warren
IHS is also grossly underfunded: in 2016, Congress allotted $4.8 billion for IHS, which came out to approximately $1,297 per person.
~ Alice Wong
It took nearly a year for Food Network to produce a show starring Justin, Rebel Eats, a one-off budget road trip program. No future episodes were announced.
~ Allen Salkin
I am in favor of reducing all budget items. But the item I don't want to reduce is the pension expenditure because it affects the weakest part of society.
~ Mariano Rajoy
I've been blessed with enough wealth that I can make a film myself up to a certain budget. So one way I thought I would reinvent myself was just to make these very small, personal films that I've financed myself.
~ Francis Ford Coppola
For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. And once again, the mayor's requests were not funded.
~ Anthony Weiner
Increased revenues, meaning higher taxes, will be a central element of any successful long-term budget plan, and President Obama is right to insist that the wealthy - the slice of America that has come through the recession in by far the best financial health - should provide those funds.
~ Steven Rattner
We need to stop spending money on those weapons systems that do not advance national security.
~ Lawrence Korb
We have a crisis in nuclear weapons, and again, thanks very much to the Democrats: Bill Clinton, who removed us from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty framework for nuclear disarmament, and then Barack Obama, who created a trillion-dollar budget for us to spend on a new generation of nuclear weapons and modes of delivery.
~ Jill Stein
We need to cut unnecessary weapons programs like the F-35 fighter plane that cost trillions of dollars and don't even work.
~ Raja Krishnamoorthi