Quotes About Budget

Bar owners tend to be social rather than operators. Most bar owners do not manage their numbers. They do not have spreadsheets or reports to manage their budget, cost, or inventory. I would say 90% of independent bar owners do not even have a budget.

The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.

We've not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can't trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I'm much more conservative with money than George Bush is.

Not one Republican president has balanced the budget in 34 years. You can not trust Republicans with your money.

The main issue is huge government spending, and my record has been trying to make sure the federal government lives within its means. I guess that's really what separates where Republicans have been from the Democrats.

When you're involved in those big-budget movies, there's a lot of hype: 'Oh this is gonna be a big hit!' And 'A Christmas Story' wasn't. It came and went and was a big disappointment at the box office.

A two-year budget is not an ideology.

A lot of the big-budget movies, craft-wise, are amazing, but have a boring story. And the indies have their idiosyncrasies.

It is illegal for the budget department to discriminate among senators.

Illinois has severe budget problem. You cannot cut your way out of the problem.

What will growth policy have to look like in a fiscally compacted Europe? Clearly any illusion of budget stimulated growth policy will have to go away.

In movies, images cost - if you want a big image, it takes more money.

For me, the scale of the budget is part of the creative process. 'Swingers' is the movie it is because we made it for exactly the right budget. Had it been made for a higher number, it would not have been as imaginative as we had to make it, given the budget constraints we had.

It is past time for Congress to get serious about our spending crisis and impose fiscal restraint.

I think to balance the budget, probably every federal department has to take cuts in my opinion.

I'm still a fiscal conservative, and I'm inclined to pay down debt.

You have to remember: what are incomes to banks are outgoes to families.

You have to have commercial income so you can spend on players.

When people are able to live at home, they have more disposable income. That part is good for the economy.

In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, incompetence or not fulfilling the terms of a contract.

I would vote to increase the debt limit if there was a corresponding level of cuts. And if there was some serious talk about a balanced budget amendment, which we as governors always had to deal with.

Every debate in Washington is about how much to increase spending - a little or a lot.

Look, I don't dispute that the deficit has increased.

Increased spending, all these favors that we got to do for people - it's got to stop.