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Quotes About Cuts

I remember walking into the editing room when I was a junior in college, and I watched the guy make cuts, and I didn't know what the hell was going on. He was just putting these shots together and telling the story, and it was amazing.
~ Jay Chandrasekhar
Instead of an end to austerity, Labour has made clear that it wants to impose more austerity cuts.
~ Nicola Sturgeon
The human consequences of Reagan's budget cuts went deep. For instance, Social Security disability benefits were terminated for 350,000 people. A war hero of Vietnam, Roy Benavidez, who had been presented with the Congressional Medal Of Honor by Reagan, 'Was told by Social Security officials that the shrapnel pieces in his heart, arms, and leg did not prevent him from working. Appearing before a congressional committee, he denounced Reagan.
~ Howard Zinn
I experiment, but I am extremely mindful of the things I wear. The key is to accept your body type and pick cuts and styles that flatter your frame.
~ Raashi Khanna
Under the Trump tax plan, we are no longer going to subsidize big government in blue states. Now those who choose to live in blue states are going to have to join with their neighbors, collect their pitchforks, and demand tax and spending cuts from city hall and the state capital.
~ Stephen Moore
Establishment idiots say the Trump tax cuts only helped the rich. Don't they understand anything about economics?
~ Steve Hilton
Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats' new spending doesn't? Will someone please ask that?
~ Rush Limbaugh
The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can't raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can't cut anything, we're obviously not going to make progress on this. And our interest is in making progress on this.
~ David Axelrod
Democrats would back larger domestic spending cuts if Reagan would cut in half the third year of the income tax cut. "You can get me to crap a pineapple," Reagan replied, "but you can't get me to crap a cactus.
~ Steven F. Hayward
We must work for a solution to address the senseless cuts that hurt our border, our economy, and our country.
~ Pete Gallego
Deep emission cuts in the wealthy nations have to start immediately.
~ Naomi Klein
With Metallica, it's hard. I tend to like it all, but the older stuff, when we get into the deeper cuts, it really excites me personally.
~ Robert Trujillo
What actually followed the cuts in tax rates in the 1920s were rising output, rising employment to produce that output, rising incomes as a result and rising tax revenues for the government because of the rising incomes, even though the tax rates had been lowered.
~ Thomas Sowell
Oh, how I prefer the honest violence of men, who will bash in another man's skull and be done, to the thousand shallow cuts of women's malice.
~ Candace Fleming
Any politician that says no tax revenue or zero spending cuts does not deserve reelection. Our hole is so deep in this country with the debt and the debt service, the interest on that debt, before the big expenses come for Social Security and Medicare - for we baby boomers in a few years - that everything has to be on the table.
~ Douglas R. Oberhelman
Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America's global enemies sense a failure of will.
~ Ben Shapiro
State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes.
~ Arne Duncan
I like to attack the spaces, move around a lot and make cuts.
~ Ciro Immobile
The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.
~ Chaka Fattah
Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.
~ George Osborne
Different types of chicken come at different price points. Filets are going to be more expensive. If it's bone-in and skin-on it's going to be less expensive.
~ Sandra Lee
You can only win the 'war' with ideas, not with spending cuts
~ Klaus Kleinfeld
By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.
~ Mitt Romney
I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.
~ Stephen Harper