Quotes About Budget

You make a movie, and if there's a red light flashing in the distance, everyone thinks that the director had a whole lot of money and a great idea that the red light means something. Then you say, 'Yeah, we couldn't afford to shut the red light off that was broken two blocks away.'

Its expensive to be dark - a theatre shut costs a lot of money.

Cold-turkey deficit reduction would cause a significant recession. A recent analysis by the Congressional Budget Office estimated that going headlong over the cliff would cause our gross domestic product, which has been growing at an annual rate of around 2 percent, to fall at a rate of 2.9 percent in the first half of 2013.

The budget is absolutely interlinked - our ability to fund our education system, to clean up drinking water, is linked with our ability to rebuild roads in this state. I'm not signing anything unless it's all done together.

My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.

The simple truth is that unless you can control immigration you cannot govern because you cannot set a budget or plan public services.

When you're dressing on a budget, simplicity is key.

Who are these pilots anyway? They get the best of everything; their demands eat up the defense budget. Can we count on them? What do they do except wear Ray-Bans and eat steaks and go home each night to sleep on clean sheets?

but Republicans have decided there is a direct correlation between the size of a patriotic heart and the size of the defense budget.

The GOP is just as culpable as Democrats for the dismal fiscal outlook because the party engages in excessive and simplistic bombast on the budget when it is out of power and then wastes its time on distractions when it has the opportunity to make progress with incremental reforms.

Republicans had promised for decades to control spending, and when given a chance, they decided it was easier to just spend more.

The biggest mistake so far," said Rudolph G. Penner, who was the chief economist in the Ford Administration's budget office, "was to urge this tremendous cut in taxes without reducing spending sufficiently. That is a major mistake that will have profound long run costs.

At least Obama was half-way honest about how much he was going to spend on health care. He had it at $600 billion. And the real number... is $1.2 trillion.

The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues.

The thing for me is that 'Thor' was an indie film that just had a few more zeros on the budget. At heart, it is just a simple story about a guy trying to get home to deal with someone who has broken into his house. It's just 'After Hours,' but set in space.

I love to watch low-budget indie artsy films, but I do also love the big blockbuster things. I would love to do that one day, do a Marvel film. That would be really great.

Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they spend.

Inexpensive is good.

People living through armed conflicts need infrastructure and services which will last, and the last thing on their mind is which budget line applies.

I am looking forward to partnering with the federal government, as well as the business leaders in our state, to address the serious challenges we face. From a budget crisis to crumbling infrastructure, we will get the job done right.

Given our historic budget shortfalls, the people of Louisiana stand to benefit most from better roads and other infrastructure.

It's insane to try to balance the budget.

Well, you can't improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane.

The biggest mistake that I see homeowners make all too often is not doing a proper inspection of the home and falling into a project that is a lot bigger than they probably anticipated or budgeted for.